Fact 1: To catch their prey, Black Widows spin a web of sticky thread using spinnerettes on the backs of their bodies. The silk is a liquid while it is stored inside the spiders body and set into solid silk threads as it is squeezed out of the spinnerettes.

Fact 2: Once an insect is bitten, the Black Widow wraps it in silk from the spinnerettes to prevent any chance of escape.

Fact 3: The Black Widows gruesome name comes from the fact that the female may eat the male partner after the mating. This meal gives her extra protein to help make her eggs.

Fact 1: Scorpions hunt night they catch insects or spiders with their pincers, tear them apart and eat them. If the victim is brave enough to fight back the scorpion curls it's tail and delivers a fatal sting. This deadly beast (see picture) is an African thick tailed Scorpion.

Fact 2: One of the largest scorpions, the giant asian scorpion grows to 18 centimetres while other scorpions are no longer than 2.5 centimetres.

Fact 3: Female scorpions to live babies that are protected by a thin skin they escape by breaking the skin with their pincers.