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Woo scampers over, as if to protect her body, but Nansi unleashes a splotch of webbing that traps the aboatia on the ground.

Even a healthy apple is susceptible to bitter pit, a disorder that marks the skin with black splotches and ruins the fruit’s flesh.

The Western United States has experienced an unprecedented number of wildfires in recent years, and some have ripped across the Owyhees, leaving splotches of burned land behind.

A lone splotch of orange poppies was also visible.

In visible-light imaging from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, these appeared as separate splotches.