Read the following text and answer questions 1-9 below: [1] Driven by the demand for exotic pets, a growing global trade is putting rare spiders and scorpions at risk, warned a team of ...
Fortunately, fatalities are fairly rare; the spiders are nonaggressive and bite only in self-defense, such as when someone accidentally sits on them. The animals most at risk from the black widow ...
one of the UK’s largest spiders which hunts its prey on the water’s surface, and which has been helped by introductions to new sites and managing grazing marshes to suit the very rare arachnids.