An enormous spider web has been found at Lake Tawakoni State Park, Texas, US. It is not the work of one giant spider - rather, millions of small ones have been spinning away and now it is twice the size of a football field. Park rangers are not sure why the spiders have joined forces - they describe it as a rare occurrence. Texas A&M University entomologist Professor John Jackman told Associated Press that there were reports of similar webs every couple of years. The web covers a 180m (590ft) stretch of trees and shrubs in the park. Although it was initially described as "fairy-tale" white, it has turned brown from all the mosquitoes caught in its trap. Experts say the web is either the work of social cobweb spiders that work together, or it has been created by spiders spreading out from a central point. The park superintendent, Donna Garde, has invited arachnid and insect specialists to the park to study it first-hand. Rangers said they expected the web to last until the autumn, when the spiders will start dying off. Source: BBC News Science/Nature ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate horror; just imagine if you get lost in the woods and walk into this giant web with probably millions of spiders crawling all over you and digesting you alive! -ohmy
Thats scary... imagine the spiders turn out to be like that movie arachnoid *not too sure if its the correct name*... Its the end of the human's race...
I am sure a film based on this must be in the work... Just the perfect setting for a fantasy drama It would be nice to see it... -rolleyes
Arachnophobia! -ohmy The web is twice the size of a football field, that's incredible huge! If the spiders don't die in Autumn and they keep reproducing themselves and throw in some kind of mutation that makes them undestructable you'll have the new real horror scenario.
Good thing i live in a country where winter destroys all... Imagine those nasty little beasts from my room gang up on me...
Yeah and you know, if I had to choose between WWIII or a world ruled by spiders I'll prefer the first one. -unsure WTF, Wind you should have warned us in advance before you post huge pics of these nasty creatures ! -shock Eeww eww ewwwwww! *shivers*
Fancy those things, too bad the whole "we swallow X number of spiders during our sleep in a year" is just an urban legend -lol But I JUST have to complain the terrible photo quality... make them smaller but clearer!!! It totally lost the edge now that it's blurry -ohmy I think I may choose WWIII over spiders just because WWIII may not turn out AS bad, but if it's WWII vs. spiders (and I am actually IN the war zone), I would take spiders any day.
