Eeeww! 200 YARD wide spider web

[underpants]

My wife is deathly afraid of spiders. I'm not but this gives me the heebiejeebies :scared:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_giant_spider_web

WILLS POINT, Texas - Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park.

Officials at Lake Tawakoni State Park say the massive mosquito trap is a big attraction for some visitors, while others won't go anywhere near it.

"At first, it was so white it looked like fairyland," said Donna Garde, superintendent of the park about 45 miles east of Dallas. "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."

Spider experts say the web may have been constructed by social cobweb spiders, which work together, or could be the result of a mass dispersal in which the arachnids spin webs to spread out from one another.

VIDEO here
http://cbs11tv.com/topstories/local_story_242182713.html

[orleans]

1. i just heard about this and did a search to see if a thread was up

and i also see no one has responded--either busy weekend or maybe just too creepy?

i found this picture


too bad my monitor sucks--i can't make anything out in your video, or this picture. but it sounds really interesting. (as long as i don't have to walk through it)

[ruiner4u]

2. ahhh crap.. they just evolved and became social...

we are so screwn...




silliness aside, I would be flipping out if I saw that.. I hate hate HATE spiders.. eww

[RushIsRot]

3. I graduated from college in Commerce, TX in 1968.

Lake Tawakoni is where we had to drive to get beer. The road was well-traveled.

[Blue_Tires]

4. i saw that on the news

i'm not getting within 100 miles of that place!:scared: