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Spider Web Covers Field

Posted by michael on from the arachnophobia dept.

doconnor writes "A huge spider web covering a clover field was found by biology professor Brian Thair. It was made by millions of spiders and was thick enough to hold coins. It wasn't sticky for catching insects. It's not known why the spiders did it. CBC News has an article and an interview in RealAudio."

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  1. Worst.Journalism.Ever by Syncdata · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Please, whatever you in the CBC online news staff do, don't tell me what species of spider it was that built this structure. Oh, and also, don't include a photo, because I'm sure noone would want to see an image of this anomoly. Do your best just to speculate about why they built the web, and make sure to include a funny joke at the end, something about aliens perhaps.

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    "Inattention makes clowns of us all" -Bean
    1. Re:Worst.Journalism.Ever by lommer · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It's a radio show that's covering this story, so why the hell would they want pictures? The website you are looking at is the web-presence of the radio show, and isn't supposed to be anything more.

      As another poster mentioned, the reason they didn't give you the species of the spider is because it hasn't been determined yet.

      And, IMHO, the CBC is a damn good news reporting agency.