Good Charlotte? Bad Boris? Help name the CBC webcam spider
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 | 11:12 AM NT
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It looks, for a moment, like an image from a bad horror movie, with an arachnid invasion of a university campus.
Appearances, though, can be deceiving. It is merely a spider that has spun a web smack-dab in front of the CBC.ca webcam in St. John's.
A spider has taken up residence outside the CBC.ca webcam this week.
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The spider, which has been on the scene since at least this weekend, has spun a web that measures about a metre long, outside the window where the webcam is anchored.
The webcam is pointed at the Prince Philip Parkway and the north side of Memorial University's campus.
On Tuesday, a second, smaller spider spun its web nearby. A number of flies — which look like specks of dust on the webcam screen — dot the two webs.
The larger spider has attracted enough interest for CBC Radio's Ted Blades to solicit possible names from his listeners. Early suggestions include famous spiders like Charlotte, the heroine of E.B. White's Charlotte's Web, and Boris, the subject of the rumbling 1966 Who song Boris the Spider.
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