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How to avoid the horror of walking through a spiderweb, according to the National Park Service

Popular Science·Margherita Bassi·about 1 month ago
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Orchard orbweaver spider in web at Florida’s Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge. Larry A. Woodward/USFWS Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. It’s a downright creepy feeling. You’re striding confidently down what seems to be a clear, open path, and then you feel it. Stretchy filaments dragging across your skin, your clothes—even worse, your face. The more you try to backtrack and flail your way out of it the more you feel like Frodo wrapped in Shelob the spider’s deadly web, your luckier friends snickering like orcs ready to take you back to Mordor .  Long story short, walking through a spiderweb is awful. However, according to the National Park Service (NPS), there are ways to avoid the frustrating encounter. The first tip they list is sticking to the road most traveled.…

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