Spiders are good - they eat pests!
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Remember the bird-eating spider in Australia? Pffff - that's nothing!
Daily Wail link - including video
Daily Wail link - including video
I got back from a 3 week holiday to Sydney on 15th and these things were literally everywhere!
Was told there had been a population explosion of them due to a very damp summer.
Although s
t scared of spiders, I am also fascinated and took some photos of them - some of the webs were a good 10m across, I kid you not.
Here is a side on view...
and here's one in the middle of it's web which spans the driveway...
Walking the 1/4 mile down to the beach, we were passing literally 50 of these in folks' gardens and they just carry on as normal - I was freaked out!
Was told there had been a population explosion of them due to a very damp summer.
Although s
t scared of spiders, I am also fascinated and took some photos of them - some of the webs were a good 10m across, I kid you not.Here is a side on view...
and here's one in the middle of it's web which spans the driveway...
Walking the 1/4 mile down to the beach, we were passing literally 50 of these in folks' gardens and they just carry on as normal - I was freaked out!
Around 10 years ago we stayed in what was at the time the only hotel inside the protected rainforest region in Australia.
The dining area was a wooden gazebo affair open on all sides with just wooden stilts holding up the roof.
Naturally the local web making spiders, the golden orbs as in this article, thought these stilts made brilliant web supports and almost every one was populated. Therefore you had to have dinner with one of these things sitting in its web sometimes less than a foot away.
To be fair, they were amazing to look at and they hardly ever moved.
The dining area was a wooden gazebo affair open on all sides with just wooden stilts holding up the roof.
Naturally the local web making spiders, the golden orbs as in this article, thought these stilts made brilliant web supports and almost every one was populated. Therefore you had to have dinner with one of these things sitting in its web sometimes less than a foot away.
To be fair, they were amazing to look at and they hardly ever moved.
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