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Wednesday, July 13, 2016, 6:20pm
By Amanda Magnus

Wisconsin’s largest collection of spiders was donated to the Richter Museum of Natural History at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay earlier this year, opening the door for more research into the arachnids.

The Kaspar spider collection holds 10,000 specimens from arachnologist John "Jack" Kaspar’s 30-year career at UW-Oshkosh.

"It’s valuable for several...

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