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How does spiders stick to the wall?

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Spiders belong to family Insecta,in the phylum Arthropoda. Spiders use their legs to climb the wall or stick to it. They have hairs on each leg. Each of the small hair is covered in even small hair called setules, which have triangular tips. These setules are more than 6,20,000 in number. They give the ability to spiders to stick to the walls, to climb along walls and across the ceiling.

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