Texan spiders spin 'monster web'
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An enormous spider web covers a 180m stretch of trees and shrubs in a north Texas park.
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Truth or fiction? ÃÂ¿ A high school student gains superpowers after being bitten by a radioactive spider.
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Pharmaceutical companies have profited from medicines derived from spiders. Now a group called Venom Venture is making sure some of that money goes toward conserving the spiders themselves.
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From now until the start of winter, male tarantulas are roaming around, searching for female mates, an ideal time to find out where the spiders flourish in Arkansas.
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As if the West Nile-toting mosquito isn't enough to worry Mississippians, add the poisonous Latrodectus geometricus to the state's list of creepy-crawly creatures.
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Small cuttlefish males are mimicking females to trick their larger rivals, US scientists have reported.
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Swarms of Asian lady bugs, introduced in this country to control pests, have themselves become a nuisance on golf courses and in homes and gardens around Texas.
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Maggots aren't just for decomposition. Armed with newfound approval from the feds, doctors are using the creepy-crawlies to treat the most stubborn kinds of wounds. Randy Dotinga reports from San Diego.
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Google Now Indexing Up to Six Url Variables  Some great news for those stressing over whether Google will be able to spider their very long dynamic urls. Appears in the last couple weeks Google has been pushing the envelope in terms of spidering urls that contain more than 5 variables and ...
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By Ray Sasser, The Dallas Morning News  May 31----E-mail   Smallmouth bass have taken a hit from golden alga, the insidious blooming plant that's caused problems in West Texas fish hatcheries and at Lake Whitney, the heavyweight champ of the state's smallmouth lakes.
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SYDNEY, Australia - Inmates in an Australian prison have been caught breeding deadly redback spiders that they milked for venom to inject themselves for a high, according to government records.    Four spiders - with venom that can kill children and the elderly with a single painful bite - were found in Grafton maximum security prison in New South Wales state on Feb...
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Playing with an intensity born of embarrassment last season, the No. 14 Utes turned New Mexico into a threadbare red carpet at University Stadium on Friday night, running over the Lobos
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A giant sculpture of a spider by Louise Bourgeois, similar to one, below, that has been luring the crowds to Tate Modern on Londonâs South Bank, has been donated to the gallery, the BBC reported. Vicente Todoli, the museumâs director, called the gift of the almost 30-foot-tall work, titled âMaman,â a âhistoric moment.â The steel and bronze sculpture was given to the Tate by Ms. Bourgeois and an anonymous benefactor. It is the largest of a series of spiders made by Ms. Bourgeois, now 96. The artist, who lives in New York, has described the piece as âan ode to my mother, my best friend.â She added: âLike spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes.â.
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Pity the fisherman or sailor who staggers on deck in the morning and through bleary eyes sees a 100-foot-long water spider coming at him, buzzing ominously.
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LOS ANGELES  - Fans of menacing movie   varmints bow down before visual effects wizard Phil Tippett.   When the Oscar-winning mind behind "The Empire Strikes Back's"   sinister Imperial Walkers, "Jurassic Park's" blood-thirsty   dinosaurs and "Starship Troopers"' arachnids was hired this   summer by producer Kathleen Kennedy to supervise creatures on   Paramount Pictures' upcoming "The Spiderwick Chronicles," a   collective 'Hail Mary' could be heard among critter   aficionados.
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SACRAMENTO -- The Spiderman Bandit didn't scale walls and spin webs while robbing banks. Rather, weblike tattoos on his forearms earned him the nickname.
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A variety of spider species built on one another's work to create a sprawling web that blanketed hundreds of yards of trees and shrubs at a North Texas park, according to entomologists who studied the unusual formation.