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• For a wicked Halloween party, choose a theme
Incorporate spiders and other creepy elements into the decorations. _ Play the theme music at the party. MAD SCIENTIST _ Choose invitation wording that makes the party sound like an experiment. _ Use beakers, test tubes and other scientific props to ...
• Animals have personalities, too
We know our siblings and in-laws have personalities — sometimes to a fault. But science recently has revealed that such individual differences are widespread in the animal kingdom, even reaching to spiders, birds, mice, squid, rats and pigs. Now a ...
• Today's weird news
A 17-year-old boy in Reno, Nev., accidentally set his family's house on fire trying to kill spiders (August). [Reno Gazette-Journal-AP, 8-18-08] A woman in Santa Fe, N.M., accidentally caused severe fire damage to her home while trying to torch a ...
• Why female spiders eat their mates
In many spider species, females eat the males after sex. Studies have suggested various complex evolutionary reasons involving costs and benefits to the species, sperm competition and esoteric sexual selection schemes. Turns out the motivation for ...
• One solution to pollution: Don't eat spiders - Environment- msnbc.com
Mercury contamination in rivers can spread to nearby birds, even ones that don't eat fish or other food from the water.