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Yikes! Spiders build massive communal web in Texas

By Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Aug 16, 2015

If you're arachnophobic, you probably should avoid Rowlett, Texas.

According to WFAA and The Associated Press, thousands of spiders have spun a sprawling communal web across hundreds of feet of trees at Lakeside Park South in the Dallas suburb.

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"I've never seen anything like this," Barry Clinger, who was at the park with his grandchildren, told WFAA

Mike Merchant, an urban entomologist, said the spiders are harmless.

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