Spider Senses

WHQR | By Andy Wood

Published February 28, 2012 at 7:00 AM EST

Peter Parker may have been the first to make that trademark tingling sense of danger popular, but he was not the first to flex his "spider senses."

Commentator Andy Wood describes one spider that, though completely blind, has a hair-trigger danger-alert system-- spider senses that even Peter Parker would envy.

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Andy Wood

Andy Wood, a WHQR commentator since February 1987, is an ecologist and conservation educator with an affinity for ecosystem habitats in and around southeastern North Carolina, and the plants, wildlife, and people they support. A collection of Andy’s commentaries is collected into his first book, Backyard Carolina: Two Decades of Public Radio Commentary.

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