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Spiders can live without food from a few weeks upto three months, depending on species, size, and age. They obtain liquid from their food and thus do not need water. Many spiders spin webs to capture their prey. However spiders also have other means of capturing their prey. Some spiders spit a sticky web onto their prey. Others live in burrows with trapdoors.

Fortunately, there are no spiders in India which can seriously harm human beings. There are about 30,000 species of spiders in the world. They have been found upto a height of 23,000 feet up Mount Everest as well as underwater. Almost all spiders are carnivorous.

The second crop of mushrooms will reappear one week later. The process can be continued upto 4 times. Then one has to start afresh. This is because after 4 crops the substrata begin to attract disease and get contaminated. Pests and Diseases: Mushrooms are easily attacked by pests and diseases and therefore require utmost care and good management.

Many are considered dangerous. None are considered useful. Who are these creatures? They are called crocodiles, alligators and lizards. There are 21 species of crocodiles and alligators in the world. The biggest and the most dangerous of all crocodiles in the world is the salt water crocodile, which can grow upto 25 feet. It is the only crocodile that can live in the sea for a long time.

And hearing all about the discomfiture of thy royal father, and of the insult to the Rishi Utanka, decide thou that which should follow! 'Sauti continued, 'King Janamejaya, that chastiser of enemies, then spake upto all his ministers. And he said, 'When did ye learn all that happened upon that, banian reduced to ashes by Takshaka, and which, wonderful as it is, was afterwards revived by Kasyapa?

We knew we were part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and that was all. One day we put in at Malta. Here the fruit-boats, all painted green and red and white and blue, came rowing out to meet us. The Maltese who manned them stood upto row their oars-and rowed the right way forwards, instead of facing the wrong way, as we do in England.

Their tail is very strong and helps them in swimming. They have a very low metabolic rate and thus need to hunt only every few days. They can decrease their metabolic rate and stay under water for a long time. Alligators have been known to stay under water for upto 6 hours. They do not make any unnecessary movements but can move very fast even on land when necessary.

And hearing all about the discomfiture of thy royal father, and of the insult to the Rishi Utanka, decide thou that which should follow! 'Sauti continued, 'King Janamejaya, that chastiser of enemies, then spake upto all his ministers. And he said, 'When did ye learn all that happened upon that, banian reduced to ashes by Takshaka, and which, wonderful as it is, was afterwards revived by Kasyapa?

Shut up that book and put it away. Throw that paper and that picture into the fire. Cut off that companion, even if he were an adoring lover. Refuse that entertainment and that amusement, though all the world were crowding upto it. And soon, and soon, till you have plucked your eye as clean of temptations and snares as it is possible to be in this life.

The general replied, "Your highness must join the staff of the commander-in-chief if you wish to look on without being mixed up in the general engagement." "But the staff are in constant danger, as well as the rest," was his answer, "and I might be struck by a ball or a bomb-shell." "Oh!" cried Caprara, "you wish to look on without endangering your life! Then go upto the top of yonder mountain."