This popular Halloween decoration could be a danger to wildlife: Here's why
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Wildlife agencies and rehabilitation centers are warning the public that animals and insects can get trapped in a certain Halloween decoration, and potentially die.
"Often the creatures moving through the bushes or trees decorated with this material can get caught, resulting in the animals dying of injury, starvation or predation unless they are rescued and rehabilitated," Amber Schiltz, interim division administrator of the Nebraska Game & Parks Commission’s (NGPC) Fish & Wildlife Education Division, wrote in an email to Fox News Digital. Cortney Moore is a lifestyle writer on the Lifestyle team at Fox News Digital.
Fake cobwebs, string lights and pumpkins can be more dangerous than you think.
Synthetic spider web decorations are made with plastic-based materials that aren’t biodegradable, which could pose a threat to wildlife if winds blow the fake webbing to other areas, according to Schiltz.
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