The Goliath Birdeater, a kind of tarantula, it is the largest spider in the world. This spider eats insects and other invertebrates, as well as mice and lizards, and is up to 30 cm across, from leg tip to leg tip.
You must be logged in to post a comment. Menu Home About All Articles. Slugs have four noses but only one foot. Slugs and snails lay eggs. A land snail can lift up to ten times its body weight. Worms can eat their own weight in food in a day.
Worms can have more than one heart — some have five or ten. Worms have been around for about million years. An African giant earthworm can be up to 6. Insects Insects have six legs. In Britain alone there are over 25, species of invertebrates known. Unlike vertebrates animals with a backbone they do not have a skeleton inside. This makes them soft and bendy, and because of this, some of them have hard shells to live in.
Some, like insects and spiders, have a thin, strong outside covering called an exoskeleton. This means they have protection for their bodies and they have legs, and often wings, which let them move more quickly and easily than other minibeasts.
Minibeasts What is a Minibeast? Other minibeasts eat other insects or even larger dead animals. Many minibeasts eat waste materials and dead matter. Minibeasts move in a variety of ways. Some, like water boatmen, are very good at swimming ; while many, like bees, flies and dragonflies, have wings which enable them to fly. Minibeasts have a varied number of legs — anything from none if you are a snail or slug to perhaps if you are certain species of millipede.
Minibeasts use these legs to help them crawl. Some minibeasts even jump — a grasshopper can jump up to 10 times its length when it jumps high, and can jump 20 times its length when it jumps long. Minibeasts reproduce in a variety of ways.
Many lay eggs which hatch into larvae. Most minibeasts, for example a butterfly, change in form from being young caterpillar to an adult butterfly — this process is called metamorphosis.
Minibeasts are of great importance to nature for a number of reasons: they are eaten as a food source by birds and other creatures, in the early stages of a food chain ; they help to pollinate plants ; they are also often decomposers and eat dead and decaying matter, essentially recycling nutrients back into the ecosystem. They also indirectly help us with farming and growing food as many minibeasts eat other minibeasts that would otherwise destroy our crops.
Humans would not survive without minibeasts , so we need to make sure we take care of them and their habitats.
Annelid : a creature that has one main body part that is segmented. Worms and leeches are annelids. Arachnid : the scientific name for spiders. Arthropod : a large group of creatures which have a segmented body; many jointed legs and an exoskeleton. Insects, spiders, molluscs and myriapods are all arthropods. Camouflage : when a creature has specific colourings, shape and texture that allow it to blend into its habitat.
Camouflage helps creatures to hide from predators, or enables them to creep up on prey. Carnivore : a creature with a meat-based diet. Crustacean : most crustaceans have an outer casing or shell; 10 legs or more; and two antennae e. Decomposer : decomposers are creatures that eat dead and decaying matter. Herbivore : a creature that has a plant-based diet Insect : a creature with six jointed legs and two eyes. They have two antennae, three body parts and often they have wings.
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