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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0;" align="justify"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Web-spinning spiders might successfully evade notice by their prey, but their silk draws the attention of thrifty warblers looking to fortify their small nests. Sticky spider silk provides prime building material for warblers early in the breeding season, making their nests resilient to weather and disturbances. </span><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 62, 48); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Orb-weavers</span><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 62, 48); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">are responsible for the classic spider web design (orb webs) that decorates our homes during Halloween, but other web-spinning species also create tangled, funnel, and wooly patterns and textures. </span><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 62, 48); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Bolas spiders</span><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> employ an unusual tactic to lure their prey: they create a single, pheromone-infused silk strand that tricks moths into flying closer to investigate—close enough for the Bolas spider to pounce under the cover of night. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0;" align="justify"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 62, 48); font-weight: bold;">Harvestmen</span><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (“Daddy longlegs”) are not true spiders, yet deserve mention as important indicators of the health of the forest. They scavenge and capture common garden pests, and have adapted the remarkable ability to curl their limbs around twigs like a coil of wire!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0;" align="justify"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">While we take down our Halloween webs, spiders are still busy spinning theirs—or spinning crafty plots to catch their dinner. Spider diversity marks a healthy forest. Rather than feeling chills the next time you encounter an arachnid, be glad our forest can support such weird, wondrous life!</span></p>
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