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Tropical spiders make fearsome 'puppets' of themselves for protection

Some spiders build delicate little nets, others colossal web megacities, and now some in Peru and the Philippines have been ...
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Imagine getting caught in a giant spider web and escaping

Do you hate spiders? Their legs, their eyes, and oh man, their webs. Well, it turns out that they don’t like you much either.

These tiny spiders are creating giant decoys of themselves for their survival

Tropical orb-weaving spiders craft giant spider-like puppets in their webs. Scientists say the decoys may deter predators, ...
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Giant spider web found in Greek-Albanian border cave: study

Scientists have discovered a giant spider web spanning about half the size of a tennis court and with some 111,000 spiders in a cave on the border between Greece and Albania. The web in the "Sulfur ...
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Giant venomous spider webs drape parts of the U.S.: Will they spread to Canada?

"Imagine a grape in the palm of your hand. That's about the size of their abdomen," Andrew Davis, a research scientist in the ecology department at the University of Georgia, says. He's talking about ...
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Giant spider webs turn up in Dallas suburb

DALLAS – An eerie sight is greeting drivers in the Dallas suburb of Rowlett. Giant spider webs are draping the trees at Lakeside Park near Lake Ray Hubbard. "In the trees along a football field-length ...
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Giant spider web covers Greek beach town

ATHENS, Greece -- It's not quite the World Wide Web - but the spiders of Aitoliko in Greece have made a good start. Spurred into overdrive by an explosion in the populations of insects they eat, ...