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Tarantulas and Spiders

• Tarantula 'may save lives'
• China implants spider genes into silkworms
• Spider calms the quaking heart
• Mothers Poison Spider Ordeal
• Spiders Light The Way
• Spider Seeks Mines
• An Eight-legged Boy Scout
• Spiders are NOT Out to Get You
• Great Raft Spider Beats Water Battle
• How mating moths elude spider's web
• Sick tarantula gets top-notch care
• It's Either Me or Your 59 Tarantulas....
• Old Nature can still teach us a trick or two
• Proposed Canadian Laws May Kill Our Hobby in Canada...
• Bug Grub!
• Spinning steel
• How Spiders Make Their Silk
• Spider Fighting
• Hobos known for bad attitudes
• Calif Heat Brings out Invasion of Pests
• Arachnid with attitude
• No Bark, But Big, Big Bite
• SPIDER BARBS
• Canadian rain forest home to previously undiscovered insects
• Tarantula Smuggling Sting
• Backman to Miss Opening of Spring Training Because of Spider Bite
• Rare spider goes island hopping
• Miller's tale of creepy crawlies
• Pet of the week- My eight-legged friend
• Pink spider offers painless profit
• Water firm risks hosepipe ban to bail out spiders
• 'Bullet-proof silk' of the black widow
• Black Widows could yield 'green' pesticide
• Spider revenge of jilted husband
• Spiders spin new lines in fashion
• How the drugs barons use live animals as carriers
• Beauty and some not so lovely beasties invade tropical Britain
• Drug-test spiders weave their way home
• Entomologist finds Britain's 640th spider
• SOS SAVES A SPIDER

Scorpions

• Shopper recovers after scorpion sting
• Holiday story with a sting in the tail
• Chinese pig out on their answer to Big Mac
• Venom to arm mosquito against malaria
• GM plants take the sting out of scorpion venom
• Scorpions Take High Toll in Iran Province
• Sick! Scorpion yo-yo is branded a no-no
• Scorpion Venom Targets Brain Cancer

Snakes

• Stray snake ate my hamster
• Woman Falls for Deadly Charm
• Healers to cleanse Zimbabwe of snakes
• Snake Hitches Ride in Car
• Lizard-Snake Link Forged
• The deadliest snake is one with a gun
• Skinks get the message when snakes are about
• The Hunt For The Big Snake
• Pet of the week - The Kingsnake
• Giant python killed after trying to swallow man
• Strange but true- Cobras save village from jaws of danger
• Snakebite Antidotes From Chicken Eggs
• Snakes Helping Thai Rice Farmers Win War On Rats
• Gulf troops take on desert vipers
• Doctor's Diary- The charm of snakes and their bite for life
• Snake charmers arrested
• Thai Monk Seeks Lottery Help from Snake Eggs
• Snake captured on aeroplane
• Snakes move from dinner table to sporting ring
• Thai Snake-Man Aims for 7 Days with Deadly Crawlers
• Electrocuted Snake Halts Trains
• More People Die of Snake Bite in Nepal
• Snake Survives Fire
• Brown tree snakes now may number more than 2 million on Guam
• Pet Python Pays Dearly for Biting Hand That Feeds Him
• Snake's venom may help treat breast cancer
• 50 People Treated for Snake Bites in Altai Region.
• Snakes in the Sewage of Europe
• Durham House Fire Reveals Slithery Survivors
• Eight More Die of Snake Bite in Nepal
• 13 FOOT BURMESE KILLS OWNER

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