A spider builds its web. Legs of eight, slowly creeping. Watching, waiting. Crawling, sneaking. Waiting, feeling. SNATCHING. Weaving. Wrapping. Then r e c e d i n g … Spiders hang on the cobwebs of our mind. So many limbs and eyes cautiously waiting in the shadows for their next meal until they suddenly run forward to catch it. Spiders have captured human interest from the earliest histories, from the Greek tale of a boastful weaver named Arachne being turned into a spider by the gods to the West African trickster spider god Anansi . In Vermont, we have over 100 species of spiders including orb weavers, fishing spiders, garden spiders and jumping spiders.   Although we encounter spiders in our day to day life, these masters of stealth star in many nightmares. What makes them so terrifying and otherworldly? Strange bodies . Spiders belong to the arachnid class which includes other creepy critters like scorpions, mites, and ticks. Arachnids have four pai...