If only they were good at decorating for Halloween.
The San Francisco Bay Area has received many shocking reports and photos of spiders falling from the sky and sticking to surfaces when they reach land.
Residents have seen white webbed blobs containing baby spiders that apparently need a new place to live through a “ballooning” process, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
“What it is is a strand of silk that a spider, a spider, uses to disperse,” Fred Larabee, an assistant professor of biology at San Jose State University, told the newspaper, comparing nature’s creepy act to dandelion petals fluttering in the wind. the wind .
“To escape from where they were born, they spin these strands of silk and they are caught by the wind, which draws the spiders to a new place to live, to a new habitat, so that they do not compete with their siblings,” he has explained .
Trick or treat! A spider’s web with a baby arachnid inside fell from the sky in California.
Weaving clumps come, as residents see, when individual threads intertwine, according to Larabee.
One Pacific Grove resident, Brook Shadwell, described seeing nests “all over” her neck, including on the ground, attached to bushes, to power lines and just about anywhere — even, frighteningly, her own hand.
“It looks almost like that fake spider web thing you buy at a Halloween store,” Shadwell said, adding that, as a lifelong resident of the area, he had never seen the creepy airborne phenomenon before.
Spiders are falling from the sky in California.AP
“It’s very silky and sticky,” he said, calling the phenomenon “very strange.”
Larabee said this fall appears to be a very rapid birth cycle for spiders.
“It’s a great opportunity to learn more about spiders,” Larabee said. “It gives people a chance to see some really cool biology that they otherwise wouldn’t otherwise.”
And who wouldn’t mind another scare in time for Halloween too?
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