1Spiders are insects. Scorpions, spiders and mites are all members of the arachnidsāa group of eight-legged animals. Spiders are arachnids, a group of creatures that includes other animals like ticks, scorpions and mites. The name comes from the Greek for spider, Arachne, which itself is taken from the name of a weaver from ancient Greek
Thespiders of Greece 5 I. INTRODUCTION Identifying the spiders of Greece is very difficult. Literature is scattered, there are no identification guides nor recent checklists InGreek mythology Arachne was a prideful girl of Colophon in Lydia who once dared challenge the goddess Athena to a weaving contest. Athena worked her loom to depict the gods seated in their glory upon high thrones while Arachne mocked them with a scene of animal-shaped deities trysting with mortal girls. The goddess was enraged at her impiety Abite from a Mediterranean recluse spider can cause death of body tissue (a.k.a. necrosis) and skin lesions, Danielson-Francois says. Reactions can happen two to six hours after the bite w0hXa.