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luke
Joined: 11 Feb 2007
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 Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:19 pm Post subject: Texan spiders spin 'monster web' |
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Texan spiders spin 'monster web'
An enormous spider web has been found at Lake Tawakoni State Park, Texas, US.
It is not the work of one giant spider - rather, millions of small ones have been spinning away and now it is twice the size of a football field.
Park rangers are not sure why the spiders have joined forces - they describe it as a rare occurrence.
Texas A&M University entomologist Professor John Jackman told Associated Press that there were reports of similar webs every couple of years.
The web covers a 180m stretch of trees and shrubs in the park.
Although it was initially described as "fairy-tale" white, it has turned brown from all the mosquitoes caught in its trap.
Experts say the web is either the work of social cobweb spiders that work together, or it has been created by spiders spreading out from a central point.
The park superintendent, Donna Garde, has invited entomologists to the park to study it first-hand.
Rangers said they expected the web to last until the autumn, when the spiders will start dying off. |
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faceless
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| Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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| that's quite an amazing picture - I'd have probably crapped myself if I was the first to find it... |
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Lostinthestates
Joined: 28 Feb 2007
Location: Bethlehem, USA
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| Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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Looks rather scary indeed  |
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major.tom
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
Joined: 21 Jan 2007
Location: BC, Canada
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| Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Was Shelob nowhere to be found? I guess Frodo & Sam had already been and gone on their way to Mt. Doom... |
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11antoniacourt
Joined: 30 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 12:42 am Post subject: |
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| faceless wrote: | | that's quite an amazing picture - I'd have probably crapped myself if I was the first to find it... |
Ditto for me. Well put Faceless. |
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SpursFan1902
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Joined: 24 May 2007
Location: Sunshine State
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| Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Can you imagine getting stuck in that? Ugh....all sticky and gross. Bleech.. |
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alan1254
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Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: Thailand
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:54 am Post subject: |
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| they look like old horror movie spider web's |
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Twirley
Joined: 29 Apr 2006
Location: North Carolina
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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We've been getting loads of small webs like that over the ivy on the front of our house this year. I think it's because we've had such a dry summer - we're on a mandatory hosepipe ban right now with no sign of any real rain for the next week (today's high - 97F).
Every time I go out the front door I get accosted by a web. It makes my skin crawl each time but then I have to remind myself that they're catching nasties and that that's good...!
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Skylace
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Joined: 29 Apr 2006
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| SPIDERS TRYING TO OVER TAKE THE WORLD! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! |
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Mandy
Joined: 07 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I like spiders (of-course only the common garden variety). They catch flies / mosquitoes etc. for a living .. nice & eco-friendly |
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faceless
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Skylace wrote: | | SPIDERS TRYING TO OVER TAKE THE WORLD! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! |
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Skylace
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| faceless wrote: | | Skylace wrote: | | SPIDERS TRYING TO OVER TAKE THE WORLD! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! |
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 Thanks for that Face. I needed that |
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luke
Joined: 11 Feb 2007
Location: by the sea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Skylace wrote: | | SPIDERS TRYING TO OVER TAKE THE WORLD! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! |
looks like these things have quite a leg span, i hope you can run fast  |
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girldorksrule
Arrrrrrr...scurvy!
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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Poo...the picture isn't working for me  |
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