Spider attacks in Brazil

[Tangri]

muitas aranhas no céu de santo antonio da platina

Translation: Many spiders in the sky in Santo Antonio Da Platina

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[bennycog]

creepy and crawly :)

Here is a farm with what looks like snow but is covered in wolf spider webs in australia.. They where escaping floods..

http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/zShyp7aHFfzWDx.TvemOEA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thesideshow/SpiderFlood.jpg

The same in Pakistan webbing trees to escape floods..

http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/QSSiRMg7ZfB1LcblkIno6Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thesideshow/pakistanspiders.jpg

Thousands of daddy long legs.. Somewhere..

http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-02/thousands-of-spiders.jpg

http://dailypicksandflicks.com/2013/02/08/raining-spiders-in-brazil-video/

Erick Reis captured this amazing footage of ‘raining spiders’ in the city of Santo Antônio da Platina, Brazil, last Sunday. The 20-year-old designer was at a friend’s engagement party when he noticed thousands of spiders falling from the sky. According to a local biologist the spiders belong to the Anelosimus Eximius species and this phenomenon is considered to be normal.

The Anelosimus Eximius species :

Most spiders have beastly social skills. They're aggressive, territorial loners that would just as soon eat a sibling as look at one.

Of the 35,000-odd spider species that have been described, however, a few dozen flout tradition. These social spiders live in groups. They cooperate while hunting and building their communal homes. They even care for their own—and sometimes each other's—young, whereas typical spiders lay their eggs and creep away.

[astrid]

thanks guys, will have some interesting dreams tonight !

[sllim11]

No sh*t. Can't wait... Off I go...


thanks guys, will have some interesting dreams tonight !

[TigaHawk]

Tho it would be creepy, i'd happily stick my hand into that wall of daddy long legs :D

All other spiders can kindly get lost tho!

[kaon]

I know most people get creeped out by spiders, but they have always been one of my favorite insects. No, I don't want them crawling on my head or in my bed, but I look at them as amazing creatures that have to be respected. While they are territorial hunters, like sharks, they get a bad rap. They are not monsters or man hunters.

[Ernie Nemeth]

Modwiz often slept in a hammock strung outside between trees. The spiders were in the hammock! He posted a few pics on the here and now thread once.

Creepy!

[Mulder]

Nature is very shocking! I hope the spiders don't all turn on us one day! I didn't think it was normal behaviour for them to build their webs together?

[Arrowwind]

When I lived in an underground house in New Mexico my room had a couple of black widows up in a corner of wood vegas.. We peacefully co-existed.
But after I had kids, if that happened, they wouldn't have lasted 2 seconds.

[DarMar]

Modwiz often slept in a hammock strung outside between trees. The spiders were in the hammock! He posted a few pics on the here and now thread once.

I love them too alot :)
Spiders are common inhabitants of my living area, where i currently live are tons of them inside my house which is in forest area. We have agreement, they eat all creepers and cockroaches, mosquitoes and leave me alone, for change i give them place to sleep and hunt.

[Freed Fox]

One of the things that changed in me, as I began to 'wake up', was that I came to respect and revere life in all its forms. I can hardly even kill flies anymore without feeling tinges of remorse. I know that might seem absurd to quite a few people, but it is the way I genuinely feel.

Having said that, spiders creep me the f*** out. I still respect them, but they stand as perhaps my only true phobia. I'm not sure what it is, exactly, but they are the only creatures that are really terrifying to me.

[Christine]

An experience with spiders.

After an initiation that I put myself through many years ago I was "encargado" to the Light, Spanish word meaning given charge to, or charged with. The next morning when I woke up there were literally hundreds and hundreds of dead spiders all over my house. I never really understood what happen.

[Tangri]

Modwiz often slept in a hammock strung outside between trees. The spiders were in the hammock! He posted a few pics on the here and now thread once.

I love them too alot :)
Spiders are common inhabitants of my living area, where i currently live are tons of them inside my house which is in forest area. We have agreement, they eat all creepers and cockroaches, mosquitoes and leave me alone, for change i give them place to sleep and hunt.

If they saw your avatar picture, no wander they had to have an agreement with you.;)

[lookbeyond]

A couple of days ago we had a large spider on the floor, one child was shrieking muuuummm theres a big spider in the kitchen and the other was saying oooohhh dont hurt it its sort of cute, so i coaxed it onto a large piece of paper and put him outside,i couldnt have done this a few years ago, i would hav thrown a shoe at it, now if it was poisonous it would hav been another story-sadly, lookbeyond

[Hip Hipnotist]

Couldn't resist...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yob2uziCHaQ

[Christine]

Perhaps the appearance of spiders indicates a "rite of passage" as depicted in the Lord of the Rings. :wizard:

It takes courage to go into the dark and carry a light.

http://debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/~mitrandir/shelob2.jpg

[Sidney]

Last evening I was sitting out on my patio and FROGS were singing. We have had a couple warm days but that was a couple weeks ago. This was at night and the temp was about 40F. I have never in my life heard the frogs come out this early, unless the temps were MUCH higher.
My first thought was that something is wrong, that the earth must be heating up from the core. This spider thing is indicative of the same. Anyone here have any kind of scientific data that would support this theory? I will have a poke around google to see what I can find on the subject.

[RMorgan]

Hey folks,

These spiders are quite common here, around rural areas.

They agglomerate together during the day, forming a huge spider ball, and they spread in the evening.

They´re quite creepy, but harmless.

Raf.

[Tangri]

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[Skywizard]

Well I don’t think it’s actually raining spiders because I didn’t see any above the top wire. They all seem to be on a web string and of the same species. I wonder what their event was.

Anyone have a big can of BUG Spray.:spider::laser: :spider:

Creepy… :blink:
skywizard

[wolf_rt]

couple of years ago, a few hunderd garden spiders decided to live in the few sq meteres of garden under my deck.... weird... they havent been back.

[blufire]

Obviously you have never seen the movie ‘Charlotte’s Web” ;)

Mother spiders can lay several hundred and up to a couple thousand eggs. This video just managed to catch the moment these eggs hatched and the baby spiders were sent on their merry way floating on the wind with a bit of silk to find a home of their own. . . . of course they are of the same ‘kind’ because they are all brothers and sisters.

Not all spiders float away, some as your garden spiders wolf_rt stay where they hatch and then wander away to their own bit of the garden.

Nothing scary, just Mother Nature at her finest going about her business caring for the planet.