21 September 2011

Spiderman Would Feel Right at Home

Spiders gathered in unusual clusters at a field east of the Huffman post office recently and spread silky thread over fireweed and other plants. A man walking his dog found a wide swath of webs maybe 20-feet deep and 40-feet long. Fairbanks spider expert Brandi Fleshman says it might have been a mass attempt to use their silk to catch air and migrate somewhere else, a process called ballooning. Story, A-3

Gathering of city spiders puzzles onlookers

Tom Underwood was walking his golden retriever near the Huffman Park Drive post office earlier this month when he came across an extraordinary sight: a field with silky, white webs strewn over the tops of a wide swath of yarrow, fireweed and other plants, in a strip maybe 20-feet deep and 40-feet long. The gauze was filled with lots and lots of spiders.

3 comments:

Bob said...

*shudders* Like something from Tolkien.

Jenny said...

Eeeek!

Team Frostbite doesn't do scary little spiders. Call in the Aussies. :)

Anonymous said...

If hell is full of spiders … I will be ever so good!!

SS