Arctic spiders. I didn't even know there were such things.On Stolen Moments: A Green Digest, today's post was about these spiders and the changes coming to them with the thawing Arctic.
Source story from Reuters.
"In the winter they hide under the snow where the climate is quite mild,"
The Worldwide Fund for Nature International gives an example; the Glacier Bay wolf spider.
"(the Glacier Bay wolf spider only lives in southeast Alaska, and its habitat is at risk from glacier recession),"This is in a 1992 Discussion paper. 1992! How slow we are to pay attention!
I didn't know about arctic spiders, either. I find it distressing that we are seeing more and more stories like this.
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