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   ocr: SPIDERS AND SCORPIONS PIDERS and scorpions belong to sensing and signaling. In - the group ofarthropods called scorpions the pedipalps arachnids. Arachnids have a become pincers. All body that is divided into two arachnids are carnivores. parts: the cephalothorax (head- As scorpion hunts its prey and kills it and-thorax) and the abdomen. with its pincers, and sometimes its They have eight legs and an tail-sting. Spiders bite their prey, extra pair oflimbs called paralyzing them with venom. pedipalps. In spiders the Many spiders trap pedipalps are used for their prey in webs. Four pairs oflegs ...