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• Scare of the Day: Bat-Eating Spiders - Nadia Drake, Wired
• Spiders, Not Birds, May Drive Evolution of Butterflies - Univ. of Florida
• Thousands of Spiders Crawling in Skies Over Brazil - Nadia Drake, Wired
• Very Strange Example of Cooperation Among Spiders - The Economist
• How Spiders Climb Walls: Is Spiderman a Gecko? - Ross Pomeroy
• Peacock Spider Woos Mates with Dance, Colors - GrrlScientist, SciLogs
• Found: A Spider That Builds Own Spider Decoys - Nadia Drake, Wired
• Arachnid Surprise: A Strange Case of Parasitism - Bug Chicks, SciFri
• Scary Monsters of the Deep Aren't So Scary - Para Sight, Deep Sea News
• How Vampire Spiders Decide Whom to Eat - Elizabeth Preston, FoS
• Nine Tree-Dwelling Tarantulas Discovered in Brazil - EurekAlert!
• 100M-Year-Old Spider Attack Caught in Amber - Megan Gannon, Live Sci.
• One Spider, One Glue, Two Functions - University of Akron
• Spiders Attract Dinner with UV-Reflecting Webs - Ella Davies, BBC News
• Spider Toxin Cures Erectile Dysfunction? - Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience
• 5 New Creatures To Haunt Your Nightmares - Lauren Hansen, Mental Floss
• New Cave Spider Has Hooks for Legs - Douglas Main, Our Amazing Planet
• Female Spider Cannibals Have Bigger Broods - Matt Bardo, BBC News
• What If a Radioactive Spider Bites You? - Katy Waldman, Slate
• Spider Detaches Penis, Gains Fighting Power - Jennifer Welsh, Live Sci.
• Suffering in the Name of Science - Alex Boese, Wall Street Journal
• Afraid of Spiders? Try Touching a Tarantula - Northwestern University
• Stop Being Prejudiced Against Tarantulas - Constance Casey, Slate
• How to Train Your Tarantula - Henry Fountain, New York Times
• Spider Silk Conducts Heat as Well as Metals - Iowa State University
• Spider Silk Spun into Violin Strings - Jason Palmer, BBC News
• Why Spiders Don't Stick to Their Own Webs - Smithsonian Institution
• Male Orb-Web Spiders Rip Off Their Own Genitals - Ed Yong, Nature
• How Jumping Spiders Make a Perfect Jump - Eva Brencicova, Cosmos
• How 'Freckles' the Goat Makes Spider Silk - Adam Rutherford, Guardian
• Silkworms Modified to Spin Spider Silk - Rachel Kaufman, NatGeo
• Clever Spiders Steal Rivals' Dance Moves - Mark Brown, Wired UK
• Tiny Spiders Are Loaded with Big Brains - Sindya Bhanoo, NY Times
• Spider Hairs Act Like Individual Ears - Dave Mosher, Wired
• Are Daddy Longlegs Most Poisonous Spiders? - Natalie Wolchover, LLM
• Deceitful Spider Gives 'Gifts', Pays For Sex - EurekAlert!
• Prehistoric Mite Hitchhikes on Spider - University of Manchester
• Fear of Spiders Rooted in Anxiety, Disgust - Belle Dume, Cosmos Magazine
• Why Spiders Will Always Find You - Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
• Assassin Bug Sneaks Up on Spiders - Victoria Gill, BBC News
• Male Black Widows Sniff Out Cannibal Females - Victoria Gill, BBC News
• Social Huntsman Spiders Live, Hunt Together - Victoria Gill, BBC News
• Underwater Spiders Use Webs as 'Gills' - Matt Kaplan, Nature News
• Spider Web Paradox: X Marks the Spot - Renae Soppe, Cosmos Magazine
• Tarantulas Shoot Silk From Their Feet to Avoid Fall - Science Codex
• Largest Known Fossilized Spider Discovered - Jonathan Amos, BBC News
• Black Widow Spiders Are Wasteful Gluttons - Danielle Venton, Wired
• Bacteria Control Gender of Spider's Offspring - NewScientist
• Mean Spiders Make Good Mommies - Susan Young, Science Now