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05-19-2015, 07:09 AM
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/150518-spiders-australia-silk-webs-animals-environment/
Forget cats and dogs—it was raining spiders recently in southern Australia (http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/australia-guide/),according to local news reports (http://www.goulburnpost.com.au/story/3075892/baby-spiders-take-to-the-air/?cs=181).
Millions of spiders dropped from the sky in the Southern Tablelands region (map) (http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/maps/map-machine#s=r&c=-34.75770105566828,%20149.70918273925778&z=5), blanketing the countryside with their webs. "They fly through the sky and then we see these falls of spiderwebs that look almost as if it's snowing," local resident Keith Basterfield told the Goulburn Post. (See "7 Bug and Spider Myths Squashed (http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/11/bugs-animals-insects-spiders-mosquitoes-tarantulas-science-myths/).")
Forget cats and dogs—it was raining spiders recently in southern Australia (http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/australia-guide/),according to local news reports (http://www.goulburnpost.com.au/story/3075892/baby-spiders-take-to-the-air/?cs=181).
Millions of spiders dropped from the sky in the Southern Tablelands region (map) (http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/maps/map-machine#s=r&c=-34.75770105566828,%20149.70918273925778&z=5), blanketing the countryside with their webs. "They fly through the sky and then we see these falls of spiderwebs that look almost as if it's snowing," local resident Keith Basterfield told the Goulburn Post. (See "7 Bug and Spider Myths Squashed (http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/11/bugs-animals-insects-spiders-mosquitoes-tarantulas-science-myths/).")