Post by L Roebuck on Oct 18, 2006 7:20:11 GMT -5
Hospital's rare spiders move home
About 100 rare spiders are being moved to a new home after being discovered on a derelict site earmarked for housing.
The cave spiders had taken over a disused air raid shelter near Papworth Hospital.
South Cambridgeshire District Council ecology officer Rob Mungovan said the shelter mimics conditions of a cave.
The spiders are being moved one by one because they are likely to eat each other if they were all moved together as they are highly predatory.
The spiders have only been found in a dozen places in the UK and never recorded before in Cambridgeshire.
A South Cambridgeshire District Council spokesman said the spiders are to be put in separate boxes and moved to a new shelter on the other side of the hospital.
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About 100 rare spiders are being moved to a new home after being discovered on a derelict site earmarked for housing.
The cave spiders had taken over a disused air raid shelter near Papworth Hospital.
South Cambridgeshire District Council ecology officer Rob Mungovan said the shelter mimics conditions of a cave.
The spiders are being moved one by one because they are likely to eat each other if they were all moved together as they are highly predatory.
The spiders have only been found in a dozen places in the UK and never recorded before in Cambridgeshire.
A South Cambridgeshire District Council spokesman said the spiders are to be put in separate boxes and moved to a new shelter on the other side of the hospital.
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