The document describes key facts about black widow spiders, including that they have a shiny black body, eight legs, and marks on their backs. They grow up to 1cm long and live in North America. Black widows eat other insects and spiders caught in their strong webs, and females can lay up to 400 eggs at a time. Their legs are coated to avoid getting stuck in their own webs, and they are the most poisonous spider in North America.

1. By Reagan, Connor and Cameron

2. They have a shiny black body
They have eight legs
They have marks on their backs
They grow to be about 1cm long not including
their legs

3.  North America

5. The black widow spider eats beetles, flies,
grasshoppers, moths and other spiders that
they catch in their strong webs

6. Black Widows will lay up to 400 eggs at a time

7.  The tips of the black widow’s legs are coated
with an oily stuff that stops them getting
caught in their own web.

8.  The Black Widow spider is the most poisonous
spider in North America

11.  National Geographic kids
 http://www.kidzone.ws/lw/spiders/facts-
blackwidow.htm