Massive Spider Web in Texas
Bill Hanna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Published: Saturday, September 01, 2007
WILLS POINT, Texas - If you hate creepy-crawlies, you might want to avoid Lake Tawakoni State Park, where a 183-metre stretch along a nature trail has been blanketed by a sprawling spider web that has engulfed seven large trees, dozens of bushes and even the weedy ground.
But if you hate mosquitoes, you might just love this bizarre web.
"At first, it was so white it looked like fairyland," said park superintendent Donna Garde. "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." There have been heated Internet discussions among experts whether the web was constructed by social cobweb spiders, which work together, or is perhaps a mass dispersal in which the arachnids spin webs to spread out from one another.
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