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Arachnids include spiders, scorpions, mites and ticks. There are about 60,000 species of arachnids. Arachnids have eight legs, not six like insects. They also have an extra pair of either pincers or fangs. They do not have wings or antennae but they do have a hard exoskeleton.Arachnids have two parts to their body-the cephalothorax and the abdomen. The cephalothorax is like the head and thorax section of an insect but it is fused together.rachnids include spiders, scorpions, mites and ticks. There are about 60,000 species of arachnids. Arachnids have eight legs, not six like insects. They also have an extra pair of either pincers or fangs. They do not have wings or antennae but they do have a hard exoskeleton.
It hunts at night and kills its prey with a potent neurotoxin venom. This venom is the most toxic venom produced by any of North Carolina's venomous snakes, but since Coral snakes are secretive, people seldom encounter one. The other species of venomous snakes are known as pit vipers. The five North Carolina pit vipers include two moccasins (the copperhead and cottonmouth) and three rattlesnakes.