Spider veil "swallowed" 300 meters of vegetation in south Greece

[Nikolas]

A strange sight came to the residents of Aitoliko yesterday evening. Specifically, on the eastern lagoon beach, before the bridge, there is a huge "veil" of spider webs that has covered the plants (palm trees, armiriki and herbaceous vegetation) at a length of at least 300 meters.

The inhabitants talk about an unprecedented event pointing out that the last Days of mosquito clusters took place. Then obviously spiders spread the huge veil, which is shown in the photos, resulting in the mosquitoes being trapped. Probably it is a reaction of nature to balance the system by mosquito restraint.

PICS: https://imgur.com/a/fIPLyHJ


Crazy situation!!!

 

[Chris LXXIX]

This is extremely dangerous!

I wonder which kind of venomous spider lives inside that web, maybe the 'Grey Widower' <-- Eek!

 

[The Snark]

Beautiful. Glad somebody got pictures.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

This is extremely dangerous!

I wonder which kind of venomous spider lives inside that web, maybe the 'Grey Widower' <-- Eek!

Shame spiders can’t keep growing til there massive like 10 foot !!outdoors

These spiders must be fat eating even mosquitoes!!

 

[Nikolas]

Really wonder what kind of true spider can build that massive webs, i suppose that here is a division of spiders works all together ??

 

[BladeGypsy]

Thought some of the members here would enjoy this article, and video within it, that I came across today.
https://bgr.com/2018/09/20/huge-spider-web-greece-aitoliko/

 

[The wolf]

No way those are spiders right?

It's gotta be moths or something similar

 

[Ungoliant]

Moderator note: I merged the two threads about this story.

 

[BladeGypsy]

^THANK YOU

 

[FrDoc]

Man, Greeks are serious about outdoor carpet.

 

[The Snark]

Tetragnatha.

 

[WildSpider]

I want spiders. Thousands of em. Crawling on me in my sleep making a silk blanket for me so I don't have to waste money on buying a furnace….

Wow, this is amazing! @Geb Arachnia Whitney, you can finally have that webby blanket you've always wanted, lol .

 

[The wolf]

Tetragnatha?,but why

How

They're orb weavers

Wat

 

[The Snark]

Yeah, I'm going to nix Tetragnatha. That's what they were IDed as from the news. But whoever did the ID went entirely by body shape.

 

[The wolf]

Yeah, I'm going to nix Tetragnatha. That's what they were IDed as from the news. But whoever did the ID went entirely by body shape.

Are there any pics of the actual spiders anywhere