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spiders take over dallas Anonymous
super spiders with giant webs are taking over dallas, each giant web filled with millions of unknown spider species

anyone live there? damn awesum stuff
>> Anonymous
You sure those aren't caterpillars?
>> Anonymous
no they think its some tropical spider, its been on most news now
>> Anonymous
well as long as they kill mosquitoes... I, for one, welcome our new arachnid overlords.
>> Anonymous
Considering that up till now Texans have been running the place, this can only be an improvement.
>> Anonymous
>>145468

lulz
>> Anonymous
Are these those tiny spiders that live comunally in hueg webs and cooperate to tackle relatively large prey?
>> Anonymous
What have you guys done down there? Shot all the birds or something?
>> Anonymous
>>145476

Well... It is Texas...
>> Anonymous
source or it didn't happen.
>> Anonymous
Fuck yeah it is, it's pretty neat.
>> Bitter Anon !!WJLRQ1cwCyZ
>>145478
I'm surprised they don't shoot the spiders, really. All those spiders living together without being married, some of them are probably gay too. There is some Texan frantically tying little nooses to lynch them with.
>> Anonymous
I shat bricks directly into my pants.
>> Anonymous
source fucktards
>> Anonymous
>>145497

So long as they don't do abortions, I believe most texans consider it all fine and dandy.
>> Anonymous
>>145548

Google it, you lazy twat. Its there.
>> Anonymous
>>145552
i tried to google it but cant sem to find anything about it
>> Anonymous
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_giant_spider_web;_ylt=Aj2lc4Mn1rCL8eVYRj.rXV3q188F
>> Anonymous
>>145497

Nah, spider meat doesn't BBQ well enough. As long as the spiders go to church every Sunday they can do what they want. Well, except go to the liquor store with another church member.
>> Anonymous
what if the spiders are illegal immigrants from mexico?! someone really should hurry up and investigate that!

and that lawnmover guy who got that net on himself and saw imaginary spiders all over himself, lol
>> Anonymous
Are you sure its not just one very very large spider thats hides during the day? Have any kids gone missing? small pets?
>> Anonymous
Texas is too busy prioritizing locking up consenting adults for nonviolent marijuana infractions to worry about that silly ecosystem you liberals keep pretending exists.
>> Anonymous
>>145620
That web is completely swarming with spiders
>> Anonymous
fuck that shit 8 legs
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It's "IT" in spider form!
>> Anonymous
Spider meat might not bbq well, but spider web goes up in flames quickly enough. I say, kill them with fire!
>> Anonymous
yay, another exotic beastie is loose in the US. It's a species of spider that lives communally in massive webs spun all over... anything, really. They do cooperate to subdue large prey, but large as in big insects. Don't start thinking "Eight-Legged Freaks" here.
>> Anonymous !mFK66iWE8c
lol whats that
>> Anonymous
I hear they're decimating the mosquito population, as long as they don't damage anything too useful I say leave 'em be. Possibly a government breeding program to combat mosquitos since bats are on the decline in urban texas?

Hey, it worked with Ladybugs vs. aphids. But I miss the ladybugs that don't pinch...
>> Anonymous
That one's gonna burn real good, lots of critters! Critters burn good!
>> Anonymous
Maybe when they are done with the mozzies they'll go after the fireants.
>> Anonymous
August 31, 2007
Got Arachnophobia? Heres Your Worst Nightmare
By GRETEL C. KOVACH

WILLS POINT, Tex., Aug. 29 Most spiders are solitary creatures. So the
discovery of a vast web crawling with millions of spiders that is
spreading across several acres of a North Texas park is causing a stir
among scientists, and park visitors.

Sheets of web have encased several mature oak trees and are thick enough
in places to block out the sun along a nature trail at Lake Tawakoni State
Park, near this town about 50 miles east of Dallas.

The gossamer strands, slowly overtaking a lakefront peninsula, emit a
fetid odor, perhaps from the dead insects entwined in the silk. The web
whines with the sound of countless mosquitoes and flies trapped in its
folds.

Allen Dean, a spider expert at Texas A&M University, has seen a lot of
webs, but even he described this one as rather spooky, kind of like
Halloween.
>> Anonymous
Mr. Dean and several other scientists said they had never seen a web of
this size outside of the tropics, where the relatively few species of
social spiders that build communal webs are most active.

Norman Horner, emeritus professor of biology at Midwestern State
University in Wichita Falls, Tex., was one of a number of spider experts
to whom a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologist sent online photos
of the web. It is amazing, absolutely amazing, said Dr. Horner, who at
first thought it an e-mail hoax.

The web may be a combined effort of social cobweb spiders. But their large
communal webs generally take years to build, experts say, and this web was
formed in just a few months.
>> Anonymous
Or it could be a striking example of what is known as ballooning, in which
lightweight spiders throw out silk filaments to ride the air currents.
Five years ago, in just that way, a mass dispersal of millions of tiny
spiders covered 60 acres of clover field in British Columbia with thick
webbing.

Mike Quinn, the state biologist who distributed the online photos, and who
runs a Web site about Texas invertebrates, plans to drive to the park from
Central Texas on Friday in an effort to get some answers by collecting
samples.

Record-breaking rains that flooded Texas earlier this summer inspired
outbreaks of crickets and webworms, the caterpillar larvae of the white
moth. Mr. Quinn said the rains might have something to do with the web,
too.

Youd have to get a lot of spiders together and feed them a whole lot of
food to make a web that big, he said.

Whatever caused the vast web, the sight of it has inspired both awe and
revulsion.
>> Anonymous
Its beautiful, said the parks superintendent, Donna Garde.

Freddie Gowin disagrees. It was Mr. Gowin, a maintenance worker at the
park, who discovered the web this month when, taking advantage of some of
the first dry weather, he mowed the area around the nature trail.

I dont think theres anything pretty about it, he said, though its
certainly unusual.

When Mr. Gowin drives the power mower through the area, webbing wraps
across his bare face, causing him to slap at spiders, real or imagined,
crawling on his skin.

The parks staff says that while the web has killed some leaves, it should
not hurt the trees.

The spiders are spreading out for sure, Mr. Gowin said, pointing out
cedars that appeared to have a dusting of snow. Theyre going to take over
this whole point.

The staff expects the web to last until colder weather this fall, when the
spiders begin dying off.
>> Anonymous
For now the concern is to defend this marvel from teenagers who might take
a stick and knock it all down, or little boys wanting to push their little
sisters into it.

Well try to protect it, with what little staff we have, said Ms. Garde,
the superintendent. Ill use the web-of-life analogy. If you break one part
of the web, it affects us all.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/31/us/31spider.html?ref=science&pagewan