Spiders Covered Australian Shores With a Massive, Gossamer Blanket

[DGUtley]

Spiders Covered Australian Shores With a Massive, Gossamer Blanket. The ghostly sight tells a story of escape, survival, and a post-flood feast.


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IN MID-JUNE, STORMS PELTED GIPPSLAND, a region in Victoria that cups part of mainland Australia’s southeastern edge. Wind downed trees, and water breached swollen riverbanks and pooled in streets. The weather snuffed out power at tens of thousands of homes. But after the rain, a bewitching sight appeared along the area’s soggy shores: It looked as if someone had draped the landscape with gauzy sheets.


They were white, thin, and fragile-looking, and appeared to have been placed gingerly, like fluffed veils. Through them, passersby could glimpse individual blades of grass. When tousled by wind, the sheets undulated like billowing fabric.

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/article...ustralia-flood

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[carolina73]

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[nathanbforrest45]

I have seen trees in the mountains of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina along the Blue Ridge Parkway covered with nest looking like cotton candy. In this case they are not spiders but "tent caterpillars" that will feast on the leaves leaving the area denuded.

https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef423

[Red Lily]

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More toxic to your health than a few spiders you'll rarely ever even see.

[nathanbforrest45]

More toxic to your health than a few spiders you'll rarely ever even see.

Its bad luck to kill a spider. I think I read that in Huckleberry Finn. Some people in Florida keep those huge Wolf Spiders on their sailboats because they only come out at night and they eat the palmetto bugs (huge roaches that are far more disgusting than any spider ever thought to be). I also allow those gigantic banana spiders to build webs around my house. They eat all sorts of other insects and other than the mess they make with the dead bodies they are very quiet. They are not in my house understand, that might be a very different story.


As another story of nature I want to relate an incident this morning. I always walk my dog in the morning (a Rough Coat Jack Russell Terrorist) and the area I live in is very crowded although its amazing how much wild life is here. Anyway, a hawk landed in the tree a few feet from me and I was worried it might attack my dog. However, we also are absolutely overrun with crows and one was in the tree next to the hawk. When the hawk made a move on the crow it flew into another tree and started cawing loudly. Within just a few seconds there were at least a dozen crows flying in and swooping down on the hawk driving it away.

[jet57]

Spiders Covered Australian Shores With a Massive, Gossamer Blanket. The ghostly sight tells a story of escape, survival, and a post-flood feast.


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IN MID-JUNE, STORMS PELTED GIPPSLAND, a region in Victoria that cups part of mainland Australia’s southeastern edge. Wind downed trees, and water breached swollen riverbanks and pooled in streets. The weather snuffed out power at tens of thousands of homes. But after the rain, a bewitching sight appeared along the area’s soggy shores: It looked as if someone had draped the landscape with gauzy sheets.


They were white, thin, and fragile-looking, and appeared to have been placed gingerly, like fluffed veils. Through them, passersby could glimpse individual blades of grass. When tousled by wind, the sheets undulated like billowing fabric.

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/article...ustralia-flood

Yeah, Gomez Addams took the pictures.

[Red Lily]

If I ever find a spider or bug in the house I just trap it in a container and relocate it outside.

[DGUtley]

I have seen trees in the mountains of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina along the Blue Ridge Parkway covered with nest looking like cotton candy. In this case they are not spiders but "tent caterpillars" that will feast on the leaves leaving the area denuded.

https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef423

We have that. They drop on you as u cut the grass if u aren’t careful.

[carolina73]

More toxic to your health than a few spiders you'll rarely ever even see.

LOL. You sound like my wife. She catches them and takes them outside.