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Arachnophobia in Texas: massive spiderweb covers 200 yards of forestry

Posted Aug 31, 2007 at 01:46PM by Gino D. Listed in: Animals and Wildlife Tags: Texas
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Huge cobweb spins over 200-yard patch of land in Texas Park - Image 1


This sounds like a scene straight out of the movie Eight-Legged Freaks. But for officials in the Texas' Lake Tawakoni State Park, it's anything but, well, a walk in the park. A massive web is covering a big area of their park, and by massive, we're talking Aragog-massive.

Harry Potter allusions aside, entomologists, scientists, and arachno-philes are currently debating about the cobweb that's covering a 200-yard (that's around 182 meters) patch of land and forestry in the park.

Some spider experts have deduced that the great blanket of web was spun by social cobweb spiders who work together. It's either that or a whole bulk load of spiders have dispersed over the area and spun their own webs individually, but have managed - because of sheer eight-legged populations - to make it look like one big web.

A Texas Forest Service entomologist has assumed that this is a most unusual occurrence in nature - maybe even a once-in-a-lifetime event. Up to now, experts are still baffled as to how this all came to be, and until samples are sent into the experts, they can't tell as of yet what sort of spider can be laid as culprit.

Now with a cobweb of this size, you can only imagine the amount of mosquitoes and other insects that it would trap. Park superintendent Donna Garde recounts: "At first, it was so white it looked like fairyland. Now it's filled with so many mosquitoes that it's turned a little brown. There are times you can literally hear the screech of millions of mosquitoes caught in those webs." Man, how's that for some pre-Halloween loving?

A fellowship of nine has been formed recently in the hopes of finding what could be the web-bound body of a poor unfortunate hobbit. Hah, we kid.

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   by Derick (Unregistered) - 2007-08-31
 » WOW
geez... if you have a fear of spiders i don't see how anyone can even walk in that place.... thats too many dam spiders.

   by Anonymous (Unregistered) - 2007-08-31
 » lolwut
only one thing we can do:

Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.


   Re: 1 (Unregistered) - 2007-08-31
 » 2
lol - someone should make a movie and call it Eight Legged Freaks 2 or something...
   by espen (Unregistered) - 2007-08-31
 » erm...
maybe spiderman was there lol

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   by justin (Unregistered) - 2007-08-31
 » reminds me of
tent caterpillars, those little bastards that make giant webs around parts of tress. Disgusting...

   by i'm (Unregistered) - 2007-09-01
 » bush
I'm waiting for the press conference where bush is going to tell us that we are sending troops to invade Texas. I'll need the army and a tax raise. hahaha! It's not going to be easy and there will be blood..

   by twinkie (Unregistered) - 2007-09-01
 » espen!!
yeah man!! spiderman was Definetly there! XD....but wait...this isnt NYC....heh....yeah...i hate spiders...NUKE 'EM!

   by yeah (Unregistered) - 2007-09-01
 » yeah
nuke em in the pooper

   by asdf (Unregistered) - 2007-09-01
 » asdf
dats cool but i hate spiders, id walk there with a flamethrower with me



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