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COBWEBS BLANKED AUSTRALIAN TOWNS
A ‘webpocalypse’ as these abandoned spider webs blanked the landscape
Dateline Gippsland, Victoria, Australia – Residents in small countryside towns have found themselves draped in cobwebs as a result of spiders fleeing ahead of the annual floods. Photos and videos captured throughout the region show homes, trees, businesses, and wide expanses of land ‘under the web’.
The webs resulted from a phenomenon known as "ballooning," which involves spiders using strands of silk to ride on gusts of wind. A government website says, "Simultaneous ballooning by thousands of spiderlings can result in a remarkable carpet of silk, called gossamer, covering shrubs or fields,"
Well, it may not be worldwide, but some things are better at ‘surfing the web’ than others.
I’m Max, and that’s the way I see it!
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