Tasmania floods: Ballooning spiders fleeing soaked ground find refuge in treetopshttp://ab.co/25LIQHq
Por: Guillermo T. 07 de Julho de 2016
Australian spiders try to flee floods, cover town with a gia
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When you and your whole family need to escape flood waters, what do you do? Well if you’re a spider, apparently you cover everything in a thick layer of silk in an attempt to escape the rising waters.
Some parts of Australia has been battling floods the last few days, and in Launceston, Tasmania, it appears the spiders wanted to be evacuated too, judging by crazy photos that have gone viral this week, showing spider escape pods, AKA webs, blanketing a suburb.
According to the locals, as Launceston started flooding, thousands of tiny arachnids took to the highest point they could find - the trees - on the outskirts of the city.
Once they made it there, they coated the trees in spider web, covering an area of almost 800 metres long. When local resident Ken Puccetti took the crazy photo above, he said, "My shoes, legs and arms became covered in webs and I had to brush a number of small spiders off." No, thank you!
But what’s actually going on here?
Turns out that the spiders really did just need to escape, and tried to orchestrate a mass ballooning event to get away. Although spiders are mostly happy in their habitats, occasionally they’ll pack up, form a flying web, and spread to a new environment.
In this case, instead of a simple desire for a change of scenery, it was probably in response to the rising flood waters.
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