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Thu 01 Jan 2009Fear of spiders worse than the boys would have you think
ANIMAL MAGNETISM:CRITTERS OF all kinds find their way into projects submitted for the Young Scientist exhibition, and the selection is as varied as ever this year. Spiders, sea urchins and freshwater limpets have proved ideal for study, writes Dick Ahlstrom
Tomás Carney (13) and Nicky Gray (12), first-year students at St Patrick's Community College in Naas, Co Kildare, focused on house spiders. "We were trying to find out what kinds of spiders we have and what affects them," explained Tomás. In particular, they wanted to look for "jumping" spiders, a variety that likes to pounce on prey rather than chase it down or catch it in a web.
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