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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:21 pm
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Giant web sets minds a-spinning in Texas
Gretel C. Kovach, New York Times
Friday, August 31, 2007
Most spiders are solitary creatures. So the discovery of a vast web crawling with millions of spiders that is spreading across several acres of a North Texas park is causing a stir among scientists, and park visitors.
Sheets of web have encased several mature oak trees and are thick enough in places to block out the sun along a nature trail at Lake Tawakoni State Park, near this town about 50 miles east of Dallas.
The gossamer strands, slowly overtaking a lakefront peninsula, emit a fetid odor, perhaps from the dead insects entwined in the silk. The web whines with the sound of countless mosquitoes and flies trapped in its folds.
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Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:21 pm
Poppy Numen
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:45 pm
Bubba, are these your pets that you sent after the wasps?
Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:45 pm
BubbaEarlIII Site Admin/Moderator
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 1:08 am
Poppy:
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Bubba, are these your pets that you sent after the wasps?
Yep, every single on of them. Raised 'em from little spider eggs. Named every one of them after BoT members. Many have the same name with a roman numeral after it. Poppy VII is one of my favorites. He is a hairy old spider.
Hey Neb, everything is bigger in Texas. Even spider webs.
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Sat Sep 01, 2007 1:08 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:27 am
Oooo nice! Real nice!
Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:27 am
berg Keeper of the Plateau
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Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:28 am
That stuff is pretty cool. There is much much smaller one near my house and the webbing is very thick. But I've never actually see spiders in the web.
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Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:28 am
ReverendChaos Site Admin/Moderator
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Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:26 am
Now I want to see that! Up close! That is so cool looking.
Here's an interesting link I found that I was going to post yesterday before Neb beat me to it. It tells a little bit more about the spider and has a great picture of part of the web...
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Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:26 am
nebula Moderator
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:09 am
ReverendChaos wrote:
a great picture of part of the web...
Holy smokes! That is one fantastically creepy web!!
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Now I want to see that! Up close!
That would be creepy enough, but the whining of all the mosquitoes and flies trapped in it would be even creepier.
I'd do this ---> but that's where all the spiders are in my house!
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nice! Real nice! 
That is one fantastically creepy web!!
but that's where all the spiders are in my house! 
