Largest Web-Spinning Spider Found


	Largest Web-Spinning Spider Found

JackieDel

10-27-2009 4:55 PM

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10-27-2009 5:25 PM

Socratoad

Now now Jackie, that spider has always spoken very highly of you

10-29-2009 10:05 PM

JackieDel

Please tell your hairy friend postcards only please, no personal visits

11-1-2009 3:56 PM

Kelika

Can you imagine opening your door and walking into one of them...eeeek!

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The female of the species has a leg span of up to 5 inches (12 centimeters), while the male—which spends much of its time clambering on its partner's back—barely reaches an inch (2.5 centimeters), a new study says.
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Part of a well-known group of golden orb-weaver spiders—which can spin webs up to three feet (one meter) wide—<I>N. komaci</I> was first identified in a South African museum collection in 2000. 
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But it wasn't until a 2007 field survey, which discovered three individuals in <A href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_southafrica.html" linkindex="60">South Africa</A>'s Tembe Elephant Park, that scientists knew the spider still existed in the wild. 
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The newfound spider, detailed October 20 in the journal <I>PLoS One,</I> is the first addition to the <I>Nephila</I> genus since 1879.
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Overall, Coddington added, the discovery of this new species is "just further evidence that it's a wonderful world."
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