Spiderwebs blanket Australian tourist stopover

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3-07-2012 @ 2:31PM

Hard2 said...

I have your answers... From the first pic shown I can see at least five different species of spider. All spiders are venemous, it's how they kill prey. Most aren't lethal to Humans. As for the webs, most of the spiders I'm seeing in the pic look like ground spiders, they normally hunt prey and only use webs as anchors. The webs you see in the pics are just normal traveling webs left by spiders roaming. They just happen to be concentrated in areas because of the flooding. These webs are just an accident of survival, too many spiders in small spaces. I doubt anything could get trapped in these webs since they arent made to catch prey, theres nothing "sticky" in them...

As for how I know this stuff, I've been keeping spiders for over 30 years.

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