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Fruits get their colors from natural pigments called phytonutrients: Chlorophyll: Gives green fruits and vegetables their color Carotenoids: Gives orange and yellow fruits and vegetables their color Anthocyanins: Gives red, purple, and blue fruits and vegetables their color

Spiders are natural predators that eat many types of insects, including flies, mosquitoes, moths, roaches, beetles, caterpillars, leafhoppers, and aphids. Some spiders, like the funnel weaver, even eat ants. Spiders can help reduce the spread of diseases carried by insects, such as malaria and Zika. Biodiversity indicators A healthy ecosystem has a rich diversity of spiders. Spider silk Spider silk is strong, durable, flexible, elastic, and biodegradable. It has many potential uses, including in construction, manufacturing, clothing, textiles, wound dressings, and more. Bioindicators of human activity Spiders can indicate the presence of human-made pollutants in the environment. For example, spiders collected from Antelope Island had high concentrations of mercury, which indicated that mercury had entered the terrestrial food web.

The Tao is a central concept in Taoism, an ancient Chinese philosophy that emphasizes living in harmony with the universe. The word "Tao" means "path" or "way", and it has multiple meanings and applications:

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The word powaqqatsi is a Hopi neologism that means "parasitic way of life" or "life in transition". It's also the name of a 1988 film by Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass that explores the conflict between traditional and modern ways of life in Third World countries: Meaning youtu.be/sNVTmWRcUbY?si=Pa_UbsLjcQBDTL8Q