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Photograph courtesy Russell Watkins, U.K. Department for International Development
Pictures: Trees Cocooned in Webs After Flood
Documented by an aid worker, millions of spiders and possibly insects took to trees to spin webs after floods inundated Pakistan in 2010.
March 31, 2011
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