Tuesday, September 11, 2012

See the Spider Stopping Traffic in Texas

Liz Klimas has the story, and picture, of a rare spider that's holding up construction of a highway originally planned to run over its habitat:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/15-million-texas-highway-project-on-hold-because-of-endangered-spider/

Spiders are useful pest controllers, and may have chemical value; a remarkable degree of scientific ignorance is expressed in some of the comments below the article.

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