Halloween decorators who feel they can’t part with their fake spider webs can safely place them inside their home, including their interior front windows. 2. Replace fake webs with other decorations ...

Halloween decorators who feel they can’t part with their fake spider webs can safely place them inside their home, including their interior front windows. 2. Replace fake webs with other decorations ...

Those synthetic, packaged spider webs that are so often pulled across bushes and trees as decor for Halloween are certainly spooky—but they’re also a hazard for birds and other wildlife.

Fake spider webs often are made of durable materials including plastic, dense cotton and other artificial fibers that can protect them from wind damage but also trap and constrict birds.

This creepy decor is all in good fun, of course. The blood, guts and blades are phony and not intended to truly frighten people. But the reality is that, at least for our nonhuman neighbors, some ...

With Halloween a few weeks away, wildlife experts throughout the country want the public to know there’s a decoration that could pose hazards for birds, bugs and other animals when it’s set up ...