Wherever you live, you’re always close to a creature that is part of the largest group of animals on Earth, the arthropods. Their relatives are called arachnids. They have eight walking legs, simple eyes and piercing jaws (fangs), abdominal silk spinning organs, anterior abdominal genital opening. Arachnids include scorpions, pseudo-scorpions, whip spiders, harvestmen, ticks mites, and spiders. Spiders are ancient…