Answer:
I am small but can carry objects many times my weight. I live in organized colonies. What am I?
A stellar five-Βlimbed sea creature.
What build its house with earthen string and ensnares its prey with a biting sting?
A horrid monster hides from the day, with many legs and many eyes. With silver chains it catches prey. And eats it all before it dies. Yet in every cottage does it stay. And every castle beneath the sky.
It's black and every time it speaks it says its name.
I fly to any foreign parts assisted by my spreading wings. My body holds an hundred hearts Nay I will tell you stranger things when I am not in haste I ride and then I mend my pace anon.