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In Friday's terrifying news story of the day, a tiny spider's web might crack apart your car engine and start a fire.

Mazda 6 recall: Beware the yellow sac spider and the web it weaves 2011

The fly ventured into the spider's parlour, and signed up.

Archive 2009-02-01 2009

Wildfires in May hit heathland in parts of the Scottish Highlands, Ireland, north-west England and Berkshire with devastating results for wildlife, though the spider's current home elsewhere in Dorset was unaffected.

UK's rarest spider moves house in a plastic bottle 2011

When I see “une toile d'araignée” in my garden, I love to go and fill a sprayer with water (little fine sprayer for indoor plants) and I spray very gently the spider's web.

toile - French Word-A-Day 2009

So much to do around here, it's sickening and besides, They smell bad, like breath mints and fertilizer, like Juniper bushes, spider's nests and you never liked Their hair cuts, all that grooming just to fit in those cat-tongue clothes, folded in the box built to rot in.

Anatomy of a Breakdown DJ Young 2011

Maps depict Kashgar—designated last year as a "special economic zone", or SEZ, offering tax breaks and other perks to investors—at the center of a spider's web of railroads and highways spreading south to Tibet and Nepal, north through ex-Soviet Central Asia, and west to Pakistan, Afghanistan and, eventually, the Arabian Sea.

'Silk Road' Plan for Xinjiang Makes for a Rough Tapestry Jeremy Page 2011

Unlike brown recluse spiders, whose venom is cytotoxic, meaning it is meant to slow down the prey, partially digesting the tissues and making for failure of the prey's systems, the black widow spider's venom is based on a neurotoxin, which I would much prefer.

Ze Widow, She Is Black Heather McDougal 2009

Or this description of a ghost: her moth-wing eyes, her off-hue hair, her spindly legs and strange, aged-auntie dress; soft and faintly clingy, like spider's eggs.

REVIEW: Push of the Sky by Camille Alexa 2009

Unlike brown recluse spiders, whose venom is cytotoxic, meaning it is meant to slow down the prey, partially digesting the tissues and making for failure of the prey's systems, the black widow spider's venom is based on a neurotoxin, which I would much prefer.

Archive 2009-06-01 Heather McDougal 2009

Mist and dew do a more artistic job on spider's webs than my fine spray of water.

toile - French Word-A-Day 2009