Massive Spider Web in Texas
Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park. This monster spider web is being spun in Wills Point, Texas and scientists are trying to figure out how and why. They have noticed mosquitos being caught in the web and that is a good thing. It sounds as if this is a rare thing although some scientists say that it happens every few years or so. Spider experts say the web may have been constructed by social cobweb spiders, which work together, or could be the result of a mass dispersal in which the arachnids spin webs to spread out from one another.
Wills Point is about 45 miles east of Dallas.
Hi Karen, Gosh that sounds really scary, I can’t imagine a web that big. Too bad we don’t have a picture of that. Wonder if they had a picture of it in their paper?