Spiders prefer wealthy suburbs

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This might explain why Claude has large spiders in/around his house...

Bright lights, big spiders: Researchers say city life is breeding giant arachnids
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Spiders got to your link!!!
Gosh... I might just join Claude on the city fringes....
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Thanks - they ate a slash (/). I have added it.
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But Claude is not in the city areas where the spiders are larger. The area studied is higher density low rise- so not many of those tree thingies. Where Claude lives there's not too many bright lights to attract the insects eaten by spiders.

Those aren't poisonous. There's not many of those.

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THIS spider prefers the city life...
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It would probably take his alter ego,with a name like Peter Parker, to decipher this

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No spiders here at the moment, too wet and cold, and, a hungry residential gecko which looks quite healthy.
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GeoffW wrote:But Claude is not in the city areas where the spiders are larger...
That's why I said "city fringes"...that's where the spiders don't get the radio active bugs and don't become homogeneously large and follow their web slinging leader.
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I was shocked and saddened to observe that the article did not have at its end the compulsory sentence which must finish all research papers, that:
More research is needed...
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John Gray wrote:I was shocked and saddened to observe that the article did not have at its end the compulsory sentence which must finish all research papers, that:
More research is needed...
More research money is needed -- there, fixed it for you...
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