蜘蛛古时叫(虫室)(虫当),又叫颠当虫。唐朝段式成曾对其生活习性有过详细的观察和记载。蜘蛛,这一名称首见明代李时珍的《本草纲目》,他写道:“设一面之网,物触而后诛之,知乎诛不义者。故曰蜘蛛”。由于蜘蛛与农牧业生产有极为重要关系,因此农谚有“蜘蛛集则百事喜”之誉称。民间流传一种谜语“摆下八卦阵,专捉飞来将”也是说的蜘蛛,这表明人们对蜘蛛喜爱之情,同时也是对其除害虫的嘉奖。全世界已知蜘蛛有近三万种,我国蜘蛛目前已知的就达三千多种。蜘蛛食性单一,全为肉食,不吃作物,专吃活虫。 Spider ancient called (worm room) (insect), also known as Britain insects. The Tang Dynasty had ever had a detailed observation and record of his habits of life. Spiders, the name first saw the Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen’s “Compendium of Materia Medica”, he wrote: “set one side of the net, the object touches and then punish, know to punish those who do not understand. As spiders and agriculture and animal husbandry production is extremely important, so farming proverbs have ”spider collection is a good thing,“ said the reputation. Folk circulated a riddle ”put under the guise array, catch the fly will" is also said that the spider, which shows that people love the spider, but also for its pest award. There are nearly thirty thousand kinds of spiders in the world, and there are more than three thousand spiders in our country at present. Spider eating a single, all for the meat, do not eat crops, eat live worms.