"You can’t really see it in the photos but there are spiders all over. It’s like thousands and thousands of spiders."
Said Jena Beatson, quoted in "'They look like waves': spider webs blanket Gippsland after Victorian floods Flooded roads and paddocks disrupt local spiders which seek higher ground on road signs, trees and any tall grass they can find" (The Guardian).
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Bart writes:
Spiders in general are interesting, and most are both enjoyable and harmless -- wolf spiders, jumping spiders, tarantulas, and zipper spiders especially so. Brown recluse ... not at all, because we have a lot of them here in Kansas and their bite can rot human flesh.
The most fascinating spider of all, however, is a type of tarantula I encountered when doing ag development work in Peru. Those things feed on BIRDS by building very large and strong webs across narrow passage ways in the forest. When a bird is caught it is mobbed by dozens of spiders, stung to death using a venom which liquifies bird flesh.
I walked into one of those webs and within seconds had 30 or so of the spiders crawling all over my face, neck and arms. Fortunately they figured out within a minute or so that I was not a bird, and thus returned to their lairs.
After that incident it became a lot easier to spot stray feathers in the otherwise invisible webs. Alfred Hitchcock, please call your office.
I remember the movie "Arachnophobia."
Back in 1990.
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