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Giant Spider Web

Posted by Hemos on from the lloth-where-are-you? dept.

Stochastic_Elastic writes "According to an article at CBC, a biology professor in northern British Columbia has discovered a giant spider web stretching 60 acres across a field. Here is a quote: "Some people have said, 'oh yes, well it's a trampoline for aliens,'" Thair joked. "Or maybe it was an effort collectively by these spiders to try and catch a sheep.""

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  1. Creepy little spiders by phorm · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I'm not a huge fan of spiders, but I'm not completely freaked out by them and this is pretty cool. With the amount of little arachnids crawling around ,wouldn't the entire area around this web also be infested by spiders? Just walking near it would probably have a bunch of little eight-legged wonders crawling up your pantleg (yoiks). 60 acres is a lot of land... so a few things I would like to know are:
    • Are these spiders migrating, or rebuilding their silken home?
    • How long did it take these spiders to make the web, it says early October, so maybe a little over a month?
    • How fast are they spreading, and what's the estimated spider-count?
    • What variety/breed of spiders are these. They all seem the same in the pictures, but are there more than one?
    Ummm yeah, and lots of spiders. Hopefully they'll find out why they decided to build this megaweb (shelter in winter, perhaps?) - keep us informed eh?