Australia's Mass Ballooning Effect -- Webs @ Spider Season

[Lillywolf]

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The abnormal spiderweb phenomenon has happened in Australia before. During periods of high rainfall or flooding, spiders are often forced to seek higher ground.

A 2016 story I happened upon looking for an article on something else. But still, all that white hazy stuff are spider webs covering a park in Australia. And no, it isn't fake. I checked.

 

[maxwel]

That's a park where you will NOT find any ants crawling into your picnic basket.

Australia is now the picnic capital of the world!!!!


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[Demi777]

Looks cool...but theres no way Ill try to see it for myself

 

[JaumeJ]

Just how many spiders are there? Are they big fellas? Either way, for my picnic, nawww.

 

[Jennie-Mae]

It’s so scary, it’s so scary, it’s so scary

I think I would have fainted if I saw those spider webs😧.

 

[mailmandan]

They have funnel web spiders in Australia which are one of the three most dangerous spiders in the world!

 

[Lillywolf]

That's a park where you will NOT find any ants crawling into your picnic basket.

Australia is now the picnic capital of the world!!!!


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Behold the insects version of Hell.



SNOPES fact-check. It is true.

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South Australian resident Keith Basterfield talked with the Goulburn Post after a similar mass ballooning event in May 2015:

It’s a natural migration phenomenon called Angel Hair, and one South Australian retiree Keith Basterfield is keen to hear more about.
“What happens is that during a particular time of the year, particularly in May and August, young spiders in the Outback somewhere throw these threads of spiderwebs up in the air and use them as a parachute to detach themselves from the ground and move in large colonies through the sky,” Mr Basterfield explained.
“They fly through the sky and then we see these falls of spider webs that look almost as if it’s snowing.​

Wagga Wagga, Australia, was also briefly covered in webs in 2012 as spiders attempted to escape rising floodwaters:"