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Venomous spiders in Illinois: how to identify them, where to find them
There upwards of 3,700 species of spiders in the United States, and more than 500 of these live in Illinois, according to the ...
On the Wildside: On the lookout for a very large spider!
One of my students at Sheffield Hallam University sent me this stunning picture of a very large, and in the UK, very rare ...
Blood, mold and spiderwebs: Abilene's weekly restaurant inspections
The Abilene Environmental Health Division conducts inspections for food safety compliance. Here are the scores for March ...
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Getting Annoyed at Your Noisy Neighbor? Spiders Are, Too. New Research Finds They’ll Build Webs Differently in Loud Conditions
In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders ...
Everyone in the City Needs Soundproofing, Even Spiders
Researchers have found evidence that a common North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban noise ...
Elusive striped creature — with disc toes — found for first time in Tibet. See it
A creature rarely seen since it was discovered more than 100 years ago was found for the first time — accidentally — in Tibet. Researchers conducting a survey of harmful forest pests recorded a single ...
What Experts Want You to Know About the Common House Spider
From the innocent daddy longlegs to the harmful brown recluse, here are the most common house spiders, how to identify them, ...