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Spider stopped most construction cost of $ 15 million
In Texas, a small spider stopped the construction of a total value of $ 15 million. It happened in the city of San Antonio, where a few months worked alongside workers and biologists.
Spider rare species - Cicurina venii - turned out to be the reason for stopping the construction of roads in the city of San Antonio, Texas.
According to experts, the spider Cicurina venii no eyes. His body is translucent, and this spider inhabits usually in caves or underground. In the US, this type of insects are especially protected. Since 1980, according to the Texas Department of Transportation representative Josh Donat (Josh Donat), people have managed to find only two such individuals. While the first spider found near the place where the second notice. So that experts hope that at the construction site can hide underground and other members of the species.
Now, in the management of wildlife and the US Federal Directorate of Highways decide whether to continue the construction.
Despite the fact that the inhabitants of the region have long advocated the gasket with a new line, complaining about the endless traffic jams, the authorities do not want to disturb the natural habitat of specially protected species. So it is possible, - observers say - that the project is 15 million in total will be forever frozen.
Spider rare species - Cicurina venii - turned out to be the reason for stopping the construction of roads in the city of San Antonio, Texas.
According to experts, the spider Cicurina venii no eyes. His body is translucent, and this spider inhabits usually in caves or underground. In the US, this type of insects are especially protected. Since 1980, according to the Texas Department of Transportation representative Josh Donat (Josh Donat), people have managed to find only two such individuals. While the first spider found near the place where the second notice. So that experts hope that at the construction site can hide underground and other members of the species.
Now, in the management of wildlife and the US Federal Directorate of Highways decide whether to continue the construction.
Despite the fact that the inhabitants of the region have long advocated the gasket with a new line, complaining about the endless traffic jams, the authorities do not want to disturb the natural habitat of specially protected species. So it is possible, - observers say - that the project is 15 million in total will be forever frozen.
