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**Zelda**

Do spiders sometimes cause you to react with dismay and revulsion?

can Shelob, in the mountains of Mordor and her children in Mirkwood still induce a good shudder?

and the movie Arachnophobia... does it give you nightmares?

well... here's an interesting discovery in Texas.

they say it might've been the heavy rains that contributed to the creation of this SEVERAL ACRE WEB:

Got Arachnophobia? Here’s Your Worst Nightmare

By GRETEL C. KOVACH - Published: August 31, 2007 - New York Times

WILLS POINT, Tex., Aug. 29 — 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.

Allen Dean, a spider expert at Texas A&M University, has seen a lot of webs, but even he described this one as “rather spooky, kind of like Halloween.”

Mr. Dean and several other scientists said they had never seen a web of this size outside of the tropics, where the relatively few species of “social” spiders that build communal webs are most active.

NYT article - (free reg. required, sorry)
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**DriveGoddess** · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 7:50 am Post subject:

Yeah I have been following this story. It is causing quite the stir in the entomological community.
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**Zelda** · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:29 am Post subject:

wonder if I can get the spiders to come take care of MY mosquito problem?

it's so amazingly cool-looking.

and just think, they're Commie spiders!

Laughing

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**Zelda** · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:37 am Post subject:

Shelob was a demonic spirit in spider form, living high in the mountains of Mordor, the last child of Ungoliant to trouble the unhappy world.

She served none but herself, drinking the blood of Elves and Men, bloated and grown fat with endless brooding on her feasts, weaving webs of shadow; for all living things were her food, and her vomit darkness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelob
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**DriveGoddess** · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:09 am Post subject:

SOUNDS LIKE KARL ROVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Laughing

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**Zelda** · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:14 am Post subject:

most interesting... I read that the webbery was originally white.

it turned BROWN after snaring millions of mosquitos!

that's totally awesome, considering I have to run the gauntlet of CLOUDS of mozzies, when traipsing over to the Duck House to feed my 24 new ducklings, and their proud triumvirate of mothers....

that's why I want to borrow a few of those spiveys!
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catdance62 · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 725 Location: Texarkana, USA

I like spiders, but that is just.....well....ICK!!!
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**woodsman** · Site Admin Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 467 Location: Jungle

That makes me think what happened? Isn't there always a bigger, stronger predator that eats one weaker and smaller, preventing it from gaining a total advantage over the environment?

geriatric · Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 346 Location: Cayo district

I spied a spider
Up a tree.
Now I'm glad
That fly's not me!
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**woodsman** · Site Admin Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 467 Location: Jungle

What's gonna happen when they run out of food?

**DriveGoddess** · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:16 pm Post subject:

Well there's lots of fat republicans they can munch on IN TEXAS!!!!! muuuaaaahahahahah
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geriatric · Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 346 Location: Cayo district

**DriveGoddess** · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject:

heheheheh

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