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A Web That Can Accommodate More Than Itsy Bitsies

As we prepare to take off for the Labor Day weekend and enjoy the traditional end of summer, we'd like to leave you on a note of utter revulsion. That is, unless you like spiders. (Ick.)

A worker at a park in Texas has found a HUGE spider web — we're talking hundreds of yards here — that's home to millions of the creepy crawlies. It has scientists fascinated and park workers determined to protect it from human hands.

But has anyone stopped to consider that maybe this is just a clever marketing ploy for Rob Zombie's Halloween?

We'll be back on Tuesday. Send any good leads to newsblog@npr.org.

- Erica Ryan

4:42 PM ET | 08-31-2007 | permalink

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