Your daily dose...

[janestarz]

...although not from Slashdot. Just too disgusting not to share. People who are generally not very much amused by spiders, might do well to not follow this link:

Got arachnophobia? Here's your worst nightmare.

By Gretel C. Kovach Published: August 31, 2007
WILLS POINT, Texas: Most spiders are solitary creatures. So the discovery of a vast web crawling with millions of spiders that is spreading across several acres of a North Texas park is causing a stir among scientists, and park visitors.

Sheets of web have encased several mature oak trees and are thick enough in places to block out the sun along a nature trail at Lake Tawakoni State Park, near this town about 50 miles, or 80 kilometers, east of Dallas.

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.

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From: The International Herald Tribune, IHT.com

The picture is quite good, though. Lloth, anyone?

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[randallsilver.livejournal.com]

See? I knew it! They're starting to take over!