What sounds do spiders make?

Answer 1

Well not hear exactly being as they don't have any ears. They do have sensory nerves in the ends of their legs though and my observation of the spider shows that at times they wave the two legs in the front in the air as though searching the air for a vibration or a squeak from their mate. It is known that certain Spiders emit a squeak audible to human ears. What is not known, I don't think, is if they emit a squeak that is inaudible to human ears. I do know, based on some experiments I have conducted, that the Argiope Appensa is not fazed in the slightest by high frequency emissions made from a computer program that was just barely audible to my human ears. If they do hear high frequency sounds it would have to be extremely high up there, and it is more than likely that they emit the same frequency or maybe their ancestors did. What I would do, had I the technology, would place a spider in a glass or plastic container along with some sort of frequency monitoring device and observe the thing. My hypothesis is that spiders do "hear" high frequency sound and that perhaps one day someone will factually prove that. There is a very informative paper I recently stumbled across on Google after typing in the question. Look for something titled "JSTOR: Reactions of orb-weaving spiders to airborne sounds." It will answer many people's questions. They talk about how spiders respond to sound and web agitation. It is a really wonderful paper and is done by Hubert and Mable Frings, who are animal sound experts. Biology teachers will love it!;) Another great place for spider information is arachnology.com. The site is amazing and includes research of scientists around the world. Another absolutely amazing spider scientist(arachnologist) is a man by the name of Friedrich G. Barth. He has written various books on this topic and I absolutely love his work.

Answer 2

In my room I heard a noise like someone blew all the air from their lungs really hard into a kuzoo. The hairs on my head stood up and I turned around slowly and saw a wolf spider on the floor. Scary stuff.

Answer 3

I fail to see how sound waves move spiders! Long handled sweeping brushes move spiders... Stainless steel pickling acid moves spiders, the toe of my size 9 rigger boot moves spiders, but sound waves?!! Spiders are basically small hydraulic machines. Their limbs move by a similar process to, say, the arm of a digger or crane. If you are refering to the method by which a spider detects something in its web, well that is done by vibration (which could be considered as sound). The spider, however, feels the movement of the web, rather than "hearing" it I suppose if you dont have a broom or any pickling acid handy you could always just turn up the hi-fi... im sure theyd move if they didnt agree with your taste in music! Amber: I did this project and it depends on what sound I made but I got it to where they mad ea halow circular bridge type web. I recorded the movements of the spiders ans the wevs they make. The also make webs by how they feel. you mite want to look that up to.

Answer 4

Spiders don't have any vocal chords so they can't make any sounds with their mouths. Some spiders such as tarantulas can make almost a hissing sound by rubbing the hairs on their legs together.

Answer 5

They don't. They rely solely on vibration to detect prey, using tiny hairs on their legs (regarding their webs/trap doors). In other situations they use their sight.

Answer 6

no they cant. spiders have no vocal cords =)

Answer 7

i think a spider makes kind of a hissing sound

Answer 8

Yes very very deadly spiders do be very careful