Arachne became depressed after this and in the end she hung herself. Athene stirred to remorse at the knowledge of what her anger had wrought turned the rope Arachne had used to hang herself into a web and Arachne herself into a spider so that the beauty of her spinning should not be lost to the world ever again. The following House Hold Spider Safari, was written by Pete Smithers for the Bug Club Newsletter, I am grateful that he has kindly allowed me to reproduce it here. There are just over six hundred different sorts of spider in the British Isles. But of these only a handful are commonly found in houses.
Spiders have a separate head and body which are joined by a narrow waist.
Attached to the side of the head are eight legs which the spider uses for walking. At the front of the head are a pair of what appear to be small legs. These are called palps and are used to guide food to the spider s mouth. The front of the head also has a group of six or eight eyes. On the underside of the body at the rear, are four or six small conical bumps or cylinders.