Spider Web Engulfs Texas Park Trail

Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:02 AM EDT
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{"commentId":986281,"authorDomain":"thelimeybrit"}
theLimeyBrit

This article is useless without pictures.

If I lived nearer I'd go out and take a look just for the pleasure of gloating over the demise of millions of mosquitoes. Bwahahaha!

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Reply#1 - Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:51 AM EDT
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mike468

It's the first battle in the soon to be war of the spiders from Mars. They're trying out their web weapon on small earth denizens, first. Next, they'll use it against squirrels, then it's cows, and after that, there'll be a giant web across 5th Ave & 57th St in NYC catching unwary tourists whose vitals will be sucked dry by huge, hairy monsters. I learned all this in a dream.

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Reply#2 - Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:09 AM EDT
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Colorado Bob

Here's the site with pictures : Southeastern Social Cobweb Spider

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Reply#3 - Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:22 AM EDT
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MCLiepshutz

UPDATES: Robb Bennett, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, The Canadian Entomologist (pers. comm. Aug. 28, 2007) ...it would not surprise me if this is the result of another mass dispersal event (rather than the result of theridiid communal activity. By mass dispersal.. I think he is talking about an event in which millions of newly hatched spiders spin a web from their tails that is used like a sail to enable them to travel away from where they hatched. I recall seeing an article in which a large field was covered with such a web for acres. That event occurred because there was not sufficient wind toa actually wisk away the baby spiders.. so their little webs covered the area.

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#3.1 - Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:49 AM EDT
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{"commentId":987781,"authorDomain":"heatherosborne1977"}
Heather-179204

Go here if you want a picture

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    Reply#4 - Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:31 PM EDT
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    {"commentId":987978,"authorDomain":"inghar2004"}
    gladbutterfly

    The sound of millions of screaming mosquitoes sounds pretty horrifying to me. What a sight tho.

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      Reply#5 - Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:36 PM EDT
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      {"commentId":989699,"authorDomain":"vicaxp"}
      vicaxp

      YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      I'll bet you can hear all the little stuck bugs screaming when you walk by!!

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      Reply#7 - Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:52 AM EDT
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      Walt D

      I for one welcome our new arachnid overlords!

      Seriously, this happened where my folks live in Florida a couple years back; every bush and tree along the canals was cocooned in spider webs. Very eerie looking.

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      Reply#8 - Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:51 PM EDT
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      braunbear1

      I stand behind Walt D in welcoming our new arachnid overlords...
      Actually, I'm cowering behind Walt D...they'll eat him first, as I'll be running, incoherently screaming into the night!

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      Reply#9 - Sun Sep 2, 2007 12:24 AM EDT
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