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What's in a spider web (observing animals)

United States, 1981
film

Notes the difference between spiders and insects, the various methods spiders have of weaving webs, their methods of trapping prey, and the laying of eggs. Fr..

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A Typical garden spider

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Spiders: aggression and mating

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Deadly spiders

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Come into my parlour, said the spider to the fly

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Webbed (2021)

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Nature in the garden

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Insects: how to recognise them

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