ladypeartree Posted September 1, 2007 Group: Royal Member Followers: 37 Topic Count: 539 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 32,790 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 23,471 Days Won: 223 Joined: 06/21/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/23/1953 Share Posted September 1, 2007 I told you you had wierd and viciuous pets Thousands of spiders build giant web Thousands of spiders have spun a giant web, the size of two football fields, in a park in Texas. Park wardens discovered the phenomenon earlier this month. The web covered several trees and shrubs in the Hunts County Park, east Texas. The huge framework, which stretches 180 metres, has attracted visitors from across the world. When the web was first spun it was clean and white but rainfall and thousands of dead insects caught in the sticky mass, have left it dirty and emitting an strong rotting smell. Officials at the park are unsure whether the web was made by social cob web spiders or was an act of mass dispersal, where the arachnids spin webs to get away from each other. The web is expected to last until this autumn, when the spiders begin dying off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fraught Posted September 1, 2007 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 105 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,741 Content Per Day: 0.28 Reputation: 28 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/23/2007 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/30/1959 Share Posted September 1, 2007 i gotta tell ya - i generally find enlightenment or encouragement from reading your posts, hon but now i am completely creeped out! i am not afraid of spiders + i go out of my way to preserve their webs if at all possible (2 reasons a. they keep down other bugs b. i consider them to be a wonder of nature) but if the spiders are banding together, i feel like i should board up my basement + can the other bugs be far behind???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Posted September 1, 2007 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 115 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 8,281 Content Per Day: 1.12 Reputation: 249 Days Won: 3 Joined: 03/03/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/30/1955 Share Posted September 1, 2007 Did they even THINK of looking about for Shelob???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarletprayers Posted September 1, 2007 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 135 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 7,537 Content Per Day: 1.08 Reputation: 157 Days Won: 2 Joined: 04/06/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/29/1956 Share Posted September 1, 2007 Leonard stole my line....................................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest yod Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 Aracnaphobia - the root of that word is greek! Spray some windex on them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladypeartree Posted September 1, 2007 Group: Royal Member Followers: 37 Topic Count: 539 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 32,790 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 23,471 Days Won: 223 Joined: 06/21/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/23/1953 Author Share Posted September 1, 2007 you would need a lot of anything to spray on a web that size Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagle eye Posted September 1, 2007 Group: Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 0 Topics Per Day: 0 Content Count: 5 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/31/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted September 1, 2007 you would need a lot of anything to spray on a web that size will this become the next word wide web? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladypeartree Posted September 1, 2007 Group: Royal Member Followers: 37 Topic Count: 539 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 32,790 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 23,471 Days Won: 223 Joined: 06/21/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/23/1953 Author Share Posted September 1, 2007 well it is already full of enough bugs to qualify Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeilanS Posted September 1, 2007 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 158 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,763 Content Per Day: 0.27 Reputation: 7 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/14/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/23/1990 Share Posted September 1, 2007 Well, this made me hugely curious, so I looked for pictures. Picture High-Res Picture (Will take forever to load on dial-up) Wow... that is freaky. And the spiders are tiny, I saw a movie clip with a researcher holding one, it's about the size of a quarter, if that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Biblicist Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 Umm. . . Hello! RAID!!! What's everyone so freaked about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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