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A tangled web they weave.


Scientists' heads are spinning over a massive spiderweb in a Texas park. The web is as large as two football, fields! Entomologists believe that two types of arachnids created the weird wonder. "At first, it was so white it looked like fairyland," park ranger Donna Garde told The Associated Press. "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." Too bad it won't stick around till Halloween. The spiders won't survive the cooler weather.

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Title Annotation:STRANGE BUT TRUE; large spiderweb in a park
Publication:Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 17, 2007
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