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Marker detail: Insects and Spiders
Photographer: Ross Hutchins, Mississippi Entomological Museum
Caption: Marker detail: Insects and Spiders
Additional Description: Millions of insects fly, hop and parachute onto the Pumice Plain. Spiders spin silk that catches the wind, transporting them as far as 30 miles. Insect carcasses add nutrients to the Pumice Plain, up to 80 pounds per acre, per year.
Submitted: October 31, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p546966
File Size: 0.558 Megabytes

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