Mysterious 'Fairyland' Spider Web Found


	Mysterious 'Fairyland' Spider Web Found
Tommolo
8-30-2007 4:53 PM
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WILLS POINT, Texas (AP) — Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park.
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"At first, it was so white it looked like fairyland," said Donna Garde, superintendent of the park about 45 miles east of Dallas. "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."
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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.
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"Until we get some samples sent to us, we really won't know what species of spider we're talking about," Jackman said.
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Park rangers said they expect the web to last until fall, when the spiders will start dying off.
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