Everything's Bigger in Texas


	Everything's Bigger in Texas

mbthorman

8-31-2007 9:37 AM

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ecology, mind_boggling, nature, science, entomology, spiders, spider, amazing, mosquitos

mbthorman says:

Wow! My daughter lives in Texas and sent me this article. I wish I could see this web! Shades of "Arachnophobia"? But it must have been beautiful and now it is helping trap millions of mosquitos. We could use that here in Costa Rica. Hemorrhagic Dengue is very bad this year. But at least we have millions of spiders spinning webs.

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