Fuzzy Spiders?

Spider's fuzz are not nearly like the hairs on our body. Our thicker hair is to keep us warm but spider's are much more finer called trichobothria and gives them a sense of sound to one tenth of a billionth meter. More solitary spiders who don't rely heavily on webs unlike more social spiders are hairier to hunt easier. You can definitely tell hair on a solitary hunting spider vs very small hair on a social. The only spider that uses their hair as an advantage is the tarantula; new world tarantulas kick off their abdomen hairs to spread into the air as a defense mechanism but is limited since they need to wait for their hair to grow back. According to people with arachnophobia, they're more afraid of hairy spiders instead of bald which shouldn't be the case since there are still many poisonous species that are bald. And like I said before in a previous post, very hairy spiders have an advantage to use their hairs as adhesives to water and allows them to float for a brief amount of time depending on the spider. But spiders who molt have to get rid of their exoskeleton along with their hairs, making them vulnerable to barely able to hear.

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