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Crickets vs. Spiders

By Janice VanCleave

Bug is a term that is often used to indicate any creepy crawler. Some people call both spiders and crickets bugs. While both might be “creepy crawlers” they are very different. One difference between crickets and spiders are their number of legs. The cricket in the diagram to the right has six legs. There are […]

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