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"The gossamer strands, slowly overtaking a lakefront peninsula, emit a fetid odor, perhaps from the dead insects entwined in the silk."

"The web whines with the sound of countless mosquitoes and flies trapped in its folds."

Millions of social spiders weave an ever-expanding web. Are you horrified, or do you think it's pretty cool?

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hdhouse বলেছেন...

i read that and saw the video a few hours ago. I am still sitting in my chair with my feet off the ground, my cat is freaked out, that type of spider (looks like anyway) is all over E. long island in the fall looking for homes.

Synova বলেছেন...

I definitely think it is *way* cool.

It's tent caterpillars that I get all grossed out by.

Spiders are awesome.

Christy বলেছেন...

I'm shocked, absolutely shocked that the NYTimes would propagate gender stereotyping with "little boys pushing sisters" into the webs. Please, it's "children pushing siblings!"

I'm on the "way cool" side. The ivy under my blue spruce looks like that when the dew is on the ground and the light catches it just right.

Jennifer বলেছেন...

Pretty cool in a picture and nowhere near my house. A little creepy though until I got to the part of the article that explained there *are* some species of social spiders.

EnigmatiCore বলেছেন...

It reminds me of the netroots of the left.

I'd draw up a comparison for the one on the right, but it's too small and scattered to visualize.

MadisonMan বলেছেন...
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MadisonMan বলেছেন...

That would make a *great* horror movie. You wake up one morning and the spiders have been busy busy busy at night, and all around you is a web to ensnare you when you try to leave. Who will save you?

Luckily, Fred Thompson has been cast as the local Ortho sales rep.

PeterP বলেছেন...

“You’d have to get a lot of spiders together and feed them a whole lot of food to make a web that big,” he said.

Naw...half a tab of acid usually does the trick on spiders.

Joan বলেছেন...

I immediately thought of Shelob's lair, but then I'm a complete geek.

Eva বলেছেন...

The web may be a combined effort of social cobweb spiders.

Spiders cooperating is not something I want to think about for any length of time. This is about 45 minutes from my house!!

rhhardin বলেছেন...

Here's a spider on the house

I believe it's an orb weaver. I'm more into bird songs and flowering weeds, myself.

KCFleming বলেছেন...

Excuse me. Has anyone seen Miss Muffett today?

Anthony বলেছেন...

Anything that wipes out "countless mosquitoes" is okay in my book.

I once walked out behind my house in the dark and ran smack into a spider web. I could feel the little bugger run across my face, too. Thankfully, it didn't bite.

Paddy O বলেছেন...

Well, it's cool until Aragog dies. Then they're dangerous.

নামহীন বলেছেন...

Arachnids eat flies, mosquitoes and roaches. What’s not to love, except for the few brown recluses, black widows and scorpions that hide in your boots and brick piles?

Charlotte’s Web- a good story about a good spider.

XWL বলেছেন...

It's the perfect metaphor for the world wide web (spiders are always so damn literal).

Bloggers and other citizen journalist are the webspinners, and all those whining blood sucking parasitic mosquitos are the legacy media and their legion of 'serious' journalist who aren't nimble enough to navigate the web, but instead get stuck in it and consumed by those social spiders.

And I guess the general populace are outside either group, annoyed (and occasionally infected by) the bloodsuckers, while helped but freaked out by the webspinners.

rcocean বলেছেন...

Like Spiders - don't like spiderwebs.

I'm conflicted.

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GeorgeH বলেছেন...

How come there's never a crop duster around when you need one?

blake বলেছেন...

MadMan,

Pretty sure you just described the ending of Kingdom of the Spiders with William Shatner and...Joan Collins?

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