--- title: Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A real bite gives nobody powers, but real spiders do have amazing versions of all three. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbi… # Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites Lesson 148 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/1/) — A real bite gives nobody powers, but real spiders do have amazing versions of all three. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/3/) — Its «spider sense» is real too: fine leg hairs bend with the smallest puff of air, telling the spider which way a fly is coming, and web spiders feel a trapped insect from a falling leaf. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/4/) — Watch a jumping spider on a windowsill: it turns, looks right at you with two big front eyes, ties on a safety thread and leaps onto a fly many times its own length away. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/5/) — Many spiders walk up glass and across ceilings using thousands of tiny foot hairs that grip by small forces between molecules; geckos use the same trick. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/6/) — Fine hairs on spiders' legs sense the tiniest air movements and tell the spider which way they come from. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/7/) — Web spiders feel vibrations so well they can tell a trapped insect from a leaf or a raindrop. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/8/) — Jumping spiders hunt by sight with two big front eyes; many see colour, and their main eyes can swivel inside the head. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/9/) — Jumping spiders leap many times their body length by pushing blood into their back legs, and tie on a silk safety line first. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/10/) — A spider bite cannot give anyone powers; most spider venom is made for killing insects, not people, so most bites are harmless or cause a little swelling, and only a few kinds of spider are dangerous to people, with good medicines for those bites. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/11/) — Tarantulas are mostly gentle; their bite is usually no worse than a bee sting, and some flick itchy hairs to defend themselves. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/12/) — Most spiders have eight eyes, but many see poorly and rely on touch and vibration; some cave spiders have no eyes at all. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/13/) — Spiders struggle on very smooth, wet surfaces, so a spider in the bath usually fell in or came from outside, not up the drain. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/14/) — Spiders in homes eat flies, mosquitoes and other pests, and all the spiders in the world eat hundreds of millions of tonnes of insects a year. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/15/) — Small animals are strong for their size, but a spider blown up to human size would struggle to hold up its own weight, because weight grows much faster than muscle strength. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/16/) — A wolf spider mother carries her egg sac, and when the babies hatch they ride on her back for days, sometimes over a hundred of them. - ← previous: [Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs/) - next →: [Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)