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#1 Aug 30 2007 at 6:33 AM Rating: Excellent
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Or would you like to see the communal 200-yard wide spider web?

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WILLS POINT, Texas (AP) -- Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park.

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"At first, it was so white it looked like fairyland," said Donna Garde, superintendent of the park about 45 miles east of Dallas. "Now it's filled with so many mosquitoes that it's turned a little brown. There are times you can literally hear the screech of millions of mosquitoes caught in those webs."


Just reading this makes me feel like I have bugs crawling on me.
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#2 Aug 30 2007 at 6:35 AM Rating: Excellent
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I hate you, Samira.

EEEEEK!
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#3 Aug 30 2007 at 6:36 AM Rating: Good
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Pics plz...

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#4 Aug 30 2007 at 6:37 AM Rating: Excellent
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There's a picture in the linked article, you lazy Frenchman.

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#5 Aug 30 2007 at 6:47 AM Rating: Good
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I know, but just in case Kao hadn't bothered to click the link...

Sharing is caring.

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#7 Aug 30 2007 at 6:59 AM Rating: Excellent
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And feebly struggling gnolls, yes.
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#8 Aug 30 2007 at 7:10 AM Rating: Excellent
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Jophiel wrote:
Are there bound dwarves hanging from it?


Tricksy hobbitsies.

Edit: Blerg.



Edited, Aug 30th 2007 8:11am by Tare
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#9 Aug 30 2007 at 7:11 AM Rating: Good
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Or perhaps a couple young British school-boys with questionable sexual tendencies waving their "wands" around?
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#10 Aug 30 2007 at 7:14 AM Rating: Good
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Spider experts say the web may have been constructed by Attercop, Lazy Lob, Crazy Cob, and Old Tomnoddy, who work together.

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#11 Aug 30 2007 at 7:15 AM Rating: Decent
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Certainly some barbarians that ran headlong into it.

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Spider experts say the web may have been constructed by social cobweb spiders, which work together, or could be the result of a mass dispersal in which the arachnids spin webs to spread out from one another.


So, this is suspected of being a big communal spider web....pretty interesting. Would be nice to know more about the spider(s) that built this.

Perhaps they could be marketed as an all-natural mosquito control technique.
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#12 Aug 30 2007 at 7:30 AM Rating: Good
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Good lord Smiley: eek


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#13 Aug 30 2007 at 7:35 AM Rating: Good
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Elinda wrote:


Perhaps they could be marketed as an all-natural mosquito control technique.



It may be the lesser of two evils. We sure could have used it at the cookout this weekend.



*I would have to see it first, I mean, how big a spider are we talking about?
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#14 Aug 30 2007 at 7:36 AM Rating: Excellent
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Elinda wrote:
Perhaps they could be marketed as an all-natural mosquito control technique.


This reminds me of what our neighbor said to us the other week after we discovered a black racer in our yard - the yard where our children play.

Bob: Well, them snakes are good. They keep the lizards, mice and bugs away.

Me (internally): Yeah, ok, but then what about the 4 foot bloody snake hanging out in your yard?
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#15 Aug 30 2007 at 7:41 AM Rating: Excellent
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Oh, racers are cool. They're good snakes.

I freaked my mom out by bringing one to show her when I was, I dunno, five years old or so.

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#16 Aug 30 2007 at 7:44 AM Rating: Excellent
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Samira wrote:
Oh, racers are cool. They're good snakes.


Bob??
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#17 Aug 30 2007 at 7:48 AM Rating: Excellent
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Tare wrote:
Samira wrote:
Oh, racers are cool. They're good snakes.


Bob??


While I exist in a blessed state of Bobliness, I can neither confirm nor deny that I am in fact Bob.

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Holy ****! Nukes! Now! Many many nukes!!!!!! Kill it killitkillitkillit!!!!!!

This is how the killer bees thing got started. I swear to god if those things spread any further north I'll build a death ray and melt them myself!

Aieeeeeee!!!!

/me runs away screaming


But seriously, texas just dropped a notch on my "places to ever visit again ometer". I didn't think that was possible. They are tied with Uganda now.
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Jesus. I'll match your 200 yard web and raise it by 60 ACRES:

http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/animals/millions_of_tiny_spiders.htm

Freaking spiders. I'm not sleeping tonight.
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#20 Aug 31 2007 at 5:23 AM Rating: Decent
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KingJohn wrote:
Elinda wrote:


Perhaps they could be marketed as an all-natural mosquito control technique.



It may be the lesser of two evils. We sure could have used it at the cookout this weekend.

I have to imagine that the numbers of people dying from mosquito-transmitted diseases far, far out-numbers those that may die from an envenomed spider bite.

Spiders are nice. I'd rather have a pet spider than a pet cat. Cat's are scary.
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Tare wrote:
Elinda wrote:
Perhaps they could be marketed as an all-natural mosquito control technique.


This reminds me of what our neighbor said to us the other week after we discovered a black racer in our yard - the yard where our children play.

Bob: Well, them snakes are good. They keep the lizards, mice and bugs away.

Me (internally): Yeah, ok, but then what about the 4 foot bloody snake hanging out in your yard?


Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're
overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese
needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous
type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around,
the gorillas simply freeze to death.
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#22 Aug 31 2007 at 6:11 AM Rating: Excellent
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Jesus. I'll match your 200 yard web and raise it by 60 ACRES:

http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/animals/millions_of_tiny_spiders.htm

Freaking spiders. I'm not sleeping tonight.


Remind me to kill you for linking that page. Now i'll never get to eat grapes again either.
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sweet, ill pay someone to ship some of those spiders down here and let them go in the mangroves in the keys and everglades.
the only good mosquito is a dead one.
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