Hey! Did you know the reason why spiders don’t stick to their own webs? Well apparently they walk on tiptoe! Strange but true… I didn’t know they had toes to walk on! They also make different strands of silk; some are very sticky and some aren’t, and the spiders know which ones to walk on… a bit like a spider obstacle course. How annoyed would they be if they stepped on the wrong one and got caught in their own web! They’d be CAUGHT OUT!! Hee hee.
Have you ever seen an insect really close up? Or through a microscope? They’re pretty ugly I can tell you. I’d be terrified if there really was a human-sized bug!! But phew, apparently it would never happen because their skeleton (which is on the outside of their body, an exoskeleton) would split open if they grew too big and all their insides would spill out. And even if the exoskeleton could grow thick enough to carry the weight of the bug, it would be so heavy I wouldn’t worry about them chasing you along the road, they probably wouldn’t be able to move!!!
If you want to check out more facts about bugs go to 595.7 in the non-fiction section. And there’s a great book if you want to see what insects (and other things) look like really close up, it’s called Out of Sight: Pictures of Hidden Worlds by Seymour Simon. You can find it at 612.84 SIM in the non-fiction area, or ask one of the staff. You can also take a look at Kids Cat.