Nature, You Are Horrific: Spiders Take Over Trees In Wake Of Pakistan Floods

31 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone in Animals, Natural Disasters, Very Cool, Vibe, World

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Human displacement aside, the floods in Pakistan have caused massive changes in the local ecology. With more than a fifith of Pakistan submerged, millions of spiders have escaped the rising waterline by moving into trees – quickly covering riverside treelines in cocoons of spiderweb. It’s creepy-looking.

Upside, there are less mosquitoes now, despite the amount of stagnant water knocking about. Either the mosquitoes are as creeped out by the giant spider nest cocoon things as I am, or they get eaten by the millions of refugee spiders. I am going to assume the second, but I am not a scientist.

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