With their unique ability to spin silk that is stronger than steel spiders make cunning traps and trip wires as well as beautiful orb webs. This book brings you up close to these brilliant engineers aerial acrobats and super-successful predators. Discover the trapdoor spider than can pull 38 times its own weight diving bell spider that lives its whole life in water - but it needs air to breathe spiders that look like bird droppings or beetles and many more.