Wolf Creek: Spiders Spinning Out of Control as Waters Rise

Posted by admin on Jun 8, 2012 in Interesting News | 0 comments

Ghostly landscape of cobwebs: Millions of spiders turn green fields white as branches and bushes are cocooned in sticky silk

Evacuees from Wagga Wagga returned home to find the landscape covered in cobwebs Web horror … a property covered by cobwebs in Wagga. Photo: Reuters

At first glance it looks like the fields have been blanketed with snow – but this ghostly white landscape in Australia is the work of millions of spiders.

As flood waters raced past the town of Wagga Wagga, in New South Wales, the spiders were forced to clamber up trees and bushes, spinning their webs as they climbed.

The result was this amazing panorama – glistening sheets of web covering just about everything in sight.

Weaving: As flood waters rose, spiders were forced to clamber up trees and bushes, spinning their webs as they climbed

On higher ground: The spiders are seen crawling over one web-covered shrub

gal_spider11_20120307151742963414-600x400 A dog walks through webs in Wagga Wagga. Photo: Reuters

Branches were cocooned in the sticky webs, while tall grasses appeared to be enrobed in silk.

The scenes are reminiscent of the coat of spiders’ webs that were spun in Pakistan after last year’s floods turning trees into what appeared like giant sticks of candy floss.

Residents of Wagga Wagga, returning to their evacuated homes as flood waters raced towards them after torrential rain turned rivers into raging torrents, were astonished to find the fields surrounding their houses transformed from green to white.

But while the town’s residents are breathing a sigh of relief that they have escaped the threatening dangers of the floods, fears were growing today for the safety of two teenage men who have gone missing in a flood-affected part of Queensland.

Amazing panorama: Glistening sheets of cobwebs cover just about everything in sight

gal_spider9_20120307150839960892-600x400 A woman walks her dogs through webs in Wagga Wagga. Photo: Reuters

Branches were cocooned in the sticky webs, while tall grasses appeared to be enrobed in silk

gal_spider5_20120307150617204690-600x400 Spiders in Wagga Wagga. Photo: Reuters

gal_spider10_20120307150906407331-600x400 Spiders in Wagga Wagga. Photo: Reuters

Luke Andus and Solomon Love, 19, set out from the town of Normanton at the weekend to travel 180 miles to the west – but have not arrived.

‘Police and family hold concerns for their welfare with some roads in the area impassable due to local flooding,’ said a police spokesman.

Dozens of freight trucks and hundreds of motorists remain stranded by the flood waters after the Bruce Highway was cut off in three places south of the town of Gympie.

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