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Supercool Vespids
Every year at the end of summer our apple trees drop apples all around, leaving fermenting fruit to attract an impressive swarm of yellow jackets. For a few weeks yellow jackets seem to be everywhere, with nothing better to do than hang around like surly teenagers and get, literally, underfoot.
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Social Spiders
If I asked you to describe spiders, I bet “social” would not make your list of adjectives. Spiders are, after all, notorious cannibals as likely to eat potential mates as, well, mate with them. Yet some spiders are as social as bees or ants or people.