Australian Spiders Weave A Wickedly Cool Web
By Meera Dolasia on 03/08/2012
I am pretty sure that everybody that is reading this current event dislike spider and especially their webs. We all remember Charlotte the spider from the movie. Well believe it or not, she is the only spider that I like (just because she is a movie). Well for the first time spiders in Australia really impress me so read the article!
On the 5th of March, more than 8,000 people that lived in the New South Wales were asked to leave their houses because of the flood, caused by the overflowing of the Murrumbidgee River. The following day they were allowed to return to their houses and instead of the green grass in the land near their houses they saw something white and (un)fortunately it was not snow. IAccording to the author “It was the magical work of thousands of tiny Linyphiidaespiders that reside in the are.” you would ask, ‘why did they do that’. As the people tried to escape from the flood, so did the spiders, and they build this giant web using a ‘trick’ that it is called ballooning and helps them float up in the air with the help of the wind! Because there were only a few dry spots, for not to submerge, they linked the trees (or hight lands) with the web in the grass. These kind of spiders are not really common and know because they are tiny and usually build their web near the ground and they are called the money spiders because people think that they bring luck! it is not the first time this wonderful and amazing thing happens but it also happened in Pakistan in 2011! In Pakistan the webs were really useful because they trapped the dangerous diseases and were transferred from the mosquitoes.
Dolasia, Meera. "Australian Spiders Weave A Wickedly Cool Web." DOGO News. 8 Mar. 2012. Web. 14 Mar. 2012. <http://www.dogonews.com/2012/3/8/australian-spiders-weave-a-wickedly-cool-web>.
