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Spider Web

Most people are terrified of the small arachnids that create these beautiful webs, but they are essential to ecological communities. This individual is responsible for regulating the insect population and plays a large role in controlling the pests found in farmers' crops. I did not catch a glance of the spider when I took this shot, but I took several minutes to study this beautiful creation. A spider's silk web is used to catch insects, and they can detect when a bug has been caught through the emitted vibrations in the web. Although it doesn't seem like one individual spider is very important to several ecosystems, a population of spiders is crucial when it comes to managing different species of insects.

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Uploaded on January 23, 2018