Whether Nosferatu or house angle spider, tarantula or Huntsman spider - the more one knows about them, the more spiders trigger disgust in most people, but also a special fascination.
About five percent of Germans suffer from a spider phobia, but for the rest of the population the eight-legged crawling animal triggers a morbid fascination.
In these eerily exciting pictures, LUDWIGSHAFEN24 reveals 26 of the almost endless surprising facts about spiders.
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