Spiders!

[LadyKay]

Thousands of wolf spiders have blanketed an Australian farm after fleeing rising flood waters. It looks like snow, but their spider webs.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/thousands-spiders-blanket-australian-farm-escaping-flood-165958059.html

[phee]

Wow... that is amazing.

[Soulrev]

That's freaking awesome!

[Glory13666]

That's creepy but cool.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Thousands of wolf spiders have blanketed an Australian farm after fleeing rising flood waters. It looks like snow, but their spider webs.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/thousands-spiders-blanket-australian-farm-escaping-flood-165958059.html

Pretty neat. Actually did some reasearch about "balloning" (the mega-webbing there) after reading this.

ALSO the epic nugget of info here:

Thankfully for local residents, the occupying arachnids are not likely to set up permanent residence, a la the 1977 William Shatner clunker "Kingdom of the Spiders." Weather reports say the flood waters in Wagga Wagga have begun receding, meaning that locals will soon be returning to their homes and the wolf spiders will also be returning to their natural underground habitats.

Capt. Kirk in a Shlock Spider movie? *rushes out to rental store* Right?? Right??

[*Siren*]

Yikes!

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Still a little confused about the "why" , I mean it says "they do this to try and escape rising floodwaters" and I heard that before a few years ago, but how does grouping up and making a ton of webs somewhere get you away from floods? Not that what the animal kingdom does is always in its best interest, might be some other built-in response going haywire.