Spiders falling from the sky

[Shared Joy]

An interesting phenomenon happened in Australia

_http://www.sciencealert.com/it-s-raining-baby-spiders-in-rural-australia

quote:

Millions of baby spiders have rained down on rural Australia

Residents in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales in Australia took to social media earlier this month with claims that their region had been "taken over" by millions of baby spiders falling from the sky.

"The whole place was covered in these little black spiderlings and when I looked up at the Sun it was like this tunnel of webs going up for a couple of hundred metres into the sky," Goulburn local Ian Watson told Inga Ting over at the Sydney Morning Herald. He found it beautiful but annoying, he added, because the spiders kept getting caught in his beard.

Not a scary even though.
Joy

 

[loreta]

This is incredible, really. I would like to see a video of this little spiders, or people with spiders in their beard... Maybe they are not dangerous but how strange is this phenomenon. It proves how intelligent are these little beasts...

 

[Chu]

I haven't seen any video of this in particular yet, only images. But there is a video of a similar event in Brazil, from 2013. Pretty impressive.

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Some images from Australia:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/angel-hair-phenomenon-when-spiders-rain-down-australia-town-1501267

 

[MusicMan]

I live not far from Goulburn, and the spiders migrate every year.
I watch the webs wafting by from my back yard.
The spiders are so tiny that they can spin a bit of web and the wind takes it and off they go.
When they get where they are going they grow larger.
Some of the local birds (swallows) use the webs to build their nests.

The spiders are not the lethal types, but are called a 'wolf spider'.
Wasps hunt them as well.
I watched when a wasp chased a spider right into its web and hauled it out, and flew off with it!

Other types of spider in this region are the poisonous red-back, similar to the American Black Widow; the huntsman, which are quite large and can give you a nip. There are also the white-tail, which can cause necrotising infections, the little jumping spiders, and a few others.

 

[Arwenn]

Wow! Thanks for posting the pictures Chu. I live on the mid-north coast of NSW, and we don't get anything like that, although we do get plenty of spiders.

 

[Mr.Cyan]

Wow...those were interesting pics of raining spiders, didnt really know that spiders migrate en masse by using the winds - thanks Chu for the pics. When i lived in the eastern Victoria (Gippsland), Australia i remember too being reminded about looking out for diamond backs, and white-tails - also a concern were the deadly funnelwebs, but apparently they were rare in those parts. Luckily the dangerous ones dont migrate en masse through the wind ...

 

[casper]

I would like to see a video of this little spiders, or people with spiders in their beard...

Video:
https://youtu.be/4A1VFYz9ld8

One resident of the town of Goulburn said his appearance because of this house looks abandoned and as if it was taken over spiders.
Supposedly, this year early.

 

[irjO]

Oh God! So weird and if this ever happen in a place where I am.. I can't think that scenario. Don't like spiders. :/

 

[Henchman 21]

well I can check Australia off the list of places I would like to move to. That's like some sort of haunted forest lord of the rings stuff. No thanks.

 

[loreta]

I would like to see a video of this little spiders, or people with spiders in their beard...

Video:
https://youtu.be/4A1VFYz9ld8

One resident of the town of Goulburn said his appearance because of this house looks abandoned and as if it was taken over spiders.
Supposedly, this year early.

Thank you Casper! Very interesting video. I REALLY DON'T LIKE SPIDERS. They make me yell. I am afraid of them, even if I don't kill them. In fact very few insects I like. But spiders specially I don't. I think that I would have to move if this situation happened in the city where I live.

 

[riclapaz]

Wow.., thanks for sharing, I do not like spiders, in fact, it looks like a scene from a horror movie.

 

[loreta]

Imagine a scene like this! We never know... maybe one day.

From the movie "Tarantula".