gah! raining spiders!!! GAH!!!!!

[magical thyme]

Raining spiders in Goulburn? Entirely possible, scientist says

Millions of baby spiders appeared to be raining from the sky in the Southern Tablelands earlier this month, with one astonished local fearing the region had been "invaded by spiders" and another reporting his home was "covered" in the creatures.

Goulburn resident Ian Watson said his house looked like it had been "abandoned and taken over by spiders".

"The whole place was covered in these little black spiderlings and when I looked up at the sun it was like this tunnel of webs going up for a couple of hundred metres into the sky."



The first, a dispersal technique called "ballooning", is more commonly used by baby spiders, although some adults use it as well. The spider climbs to the top of vegetation and releases a streamer of silk that catches on the breeze and carries the spider aloft.

Spiders have been caught flying like this up to three kilometres above the ground, Robinson said.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/raining-spiders-in-goulburn-entirely-possible-scientist-says-20150514-gh1guf.html

[irisblue]

1. I would have a heart attack & die

arachnophobia is strong for me.

[magical thyme]

2. I would never set foot outside my house

at least not until a deluge washed them away....

[2theleft]

5. Me, too. That would be like living in a nightmare that you couldn't wake up from.

I've got creepy crawlies/heebie jeebies just thinking about that happening from the comfort of my house where no spiders are falling from sky.

[cantbeserious]

3. Fascinating - Thank You For Sharing

eom

[Dont call me Shirley]

4. Do they get in the house?

[pinboy3niner]

6. The itsy bitsy spider paratroopers are just the first wave of the larger invasion force

[rug]

7. I can only imagine what will happen if Florida man moves to Australia.

[laundry_queen]

8. Holy God, that would be it for me.

I think I'd die. Or I'd wish I were dead. One or the other.

This is why I live somewhere with snow 5 months of the year.

[Arugula Latte]

9. Yeah that is pretty much the worst thing that has ever happened in the history of the universe.

Nuking the entire continent of Australia is probably the only reasonable response.

[Laffy Kat]

12. "It's the only way to be sure."

Said Ripley, "Aliens"

[MerryBlooms]

10. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[URL=.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL]

[KMOD]

11. I saw a spider egg hatch once.

I thought it was cool.

[hifiguy]

13. Git the flamethrower, Tex!

[seveneyes]

14. Bring it on

[Joe the Revelator]

15. Spiders are our bros, man.....

Even flying ones. All they want to do is help you by killing other nasty things that fly and crawl around on the ground.