If you happen to be both a climate change denier and are arachnophobic you might want to pay attention to today's post. Hundred or maybe thousands of spiders were recorded on a giant collective web across the sky in Brazil. The phenomenon is caused by extreme heat an humidity forcing to spiders to spin a massive web in order to catch prey (mostly insects) who can't avoid the web due to its size. Researchers call this behavior ballooning. It puts me in mind of the spiders who spin webs across my stairs in the fall hoping to catch me and feast like kings over the winter months though so far their webs have not managed to trap me.
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