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Spider's Web is a novelization by Charles Osborne of the 1954 play of the same name by crime fiction writer Agatha Christie and was first published in the UK by HarperCollins in September 2000 and on November 11, 2000, in the US by St. Martin's Press.
A classic circular form spider's web Infographic illustrating the process of constructing an orb web. A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web, or cobweb (from the archaic word coppe, meaning 'spider') [1] is a structure created by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets, generally meant to catch its prey.
Spider's Web is a play by crime writer Agatha Christie. Spider's Web, which premiered in London's West End in 1954, is Agatha Christie's second most successful play (744 performances), [1] having run longer than Witness for the Prosecution, which premiered in 1953 (458 performances). [2]
Deinopidae, also known as net casting spiders, is a family of cribellate [1] spiders first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850. [2] It consists of stick-like elongated spiders that catch prey by stretching a web across their front legs before propelling themselves forward.
The poster showed a close-up of Spider-Man's face with the towers reflected in his eyes, while the trailer showed a helicopter getting caught in a giant spider web spun between the towers. [h] The trailer, which according to Sony did not contain any actual footage from the film, was also removed from the home video release of A Knight's Tale.
Philosophers often use the spider's web as a metaphor or analogy, and today terms such as the Internet or World Wide Web evoke the inter-connectivity of a spider web. [4] Many goddesses associated with spiders and other female portrayals reflect observations of their specific female-dominated copulation. [5] [6]
Deinopis, also known as net-casting spiders, gladiator spiders and ogre-faced spiders, [2] is a genus of net-casting spiders that was first described by W. S. MacLeay in 1839. [3] Its distribution is widely tropical and subtropical.
Male adults average only 3.5 to 6 mm (0.14 to 0.24 in), with the abdomen about the same size as the cephalothorax and with prominent pedipalps. [4] [9] Double-tailed tent spiders closely resemble Cyrtophora parangexanthematica in the Philippines. A fact reflected by its scientific name which literally means "like exanthematica" in Filipino. [1]