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Mysterious 'Fairyland' Spider Web Found
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8-30-2007 4:53 PM
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"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." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/070830_ap_spider_webs.html"><P> 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. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/070830_ap_spider_webs.html"><P> "Until we get some samples sent to us, we really won't know what species of spider we're talking about," Jackman said. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/070830_ap_spider_webs.html"><P> Park rangers said they expect the web to last until fall, when the spiders will start dying off. </P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070830_spider_webs_02.jpg&cap=Lake+Tawokoni+State+Park+rangers+Mike+McCord%2C+left%2C+and+Freddie+Gowin+monitor+a+giant+communal+spider+web+at+the+park+in+Texas.+The+web+formed+over+the+past+several+weeks%2C+and+such+webs+are+rare+in+Texas.+Credit%3A+Tom+Pennington+%2F+Fort+Worth+Star-Telegram+%2F+AP&title=Mysterious+%27Fairyland%27+Spider+Web+Found&title=Mysterious%20'Fairyland'%20Spider%20Web%20Found" href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070830_spider_webs_02.jpg&cap=Lake+Tawokoni+State+Park+rangers+Mike+McCord%2C+left%2C+and+Freddie+Gowin+monitor+a+giant+communal+spider+web+at+the+park+in+Texas.+The+web+formed+over+the+past+several+weeks%2C+and+such+webs+are+rare+in+Texas.+Credit%3A+Tom+Pennington+%2F+Fort+Worth+Star-Telegram+%2F+AP&title=Mysterious+%27Fairyland%27+Spider+Web+Found&title=Mysterious%20'Fairyland'%20Spider%20Web%20Found" style="font-size: 11px;">www.livescience.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070830_spider_webs_02.jpg&cap=Lake+Tawokoni+State+Park+rangers+Mike+McCord%2C+left%2C+and+Freddie+Gowin+monitor+a+giant+communal+spider+web+at+the+park+in+Texas.+The+web+formed+over+the+past+several+weeks%2C+and+such+webs+are+rare+in+Texas.+Credit%3A+Tom+Pennington+%2F+Fort+Worth+Star-Telegram+%2F+AP&title=Mysterious+%27Fairyland%27+Spider+Web+Found&title=Mysterious%20'Fairyland'%20Spider%20Web%20Found"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.livescience.com/img/ACCE1346-005D-4516-86D9-CECF9132F43F" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D1F9E840-4D2F-4260-B061-671E245B4601/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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