Spider rain. Spiders have rained down on an Australian city. Video Rain of spiders in Australia

Australia, like no other continent, is subject to all sorts of cataclysms and catastrophes. What does this picturesque continent not have to endure every year. Earthquakes, droughts, hurricanes. And now the flood, because of which thousands of tiny spiders had to leave their acquired shelters in search of surviving land plots. At the same time, the entire area where the migration took place was soon covered with long and wide web paths, which in itself looks very interesting. Of course, if you look from the side and also in the photo.", "Australia, like no other continent, is subject to all sorts of cataclysms and disasters.

What does this picturesque continent not have to endure every year. Earthquakes, droughts, hurricanes. And now the flood, because of which thousands of tiny spiders had to leave their acquired shelters in search of surviving land plots. At the same time, the entire area where the migration took place was soon covered with long and wide web paths, which in itself looks very interesting. Of course, if you look from the side and also in the photo.

Large-scale flooding continues in Australia - people are forced to leave their homes, and local arthropods are developing new habitats. Fleeing from the rising water, they braided all the unoccupied islands of land with a sticky web.

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1. Australia continues to suffer from widespread flooding. Heavy rains have not stopped there for a week now, causing rivers to overflow their banks. It is predicted that some areas will be under water by 9 meters.

2. Severe flooding caused an invasion of spiders, which covered all coastal areas with their web, as if with white snow or poplar fluff.

3. Millions of arthropods entwined the coastal vegetation with a dense cocoon.

4. Coastal fields, like a grid, are entangled in a dense sticky web.

5. According to experts, such an abundance of webs is due to the fact that spiders are trying to survive in flood conditions, forced to seek shelter from the arriving water.

6. The largest number of spiders is observed in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe city of Waga-Waga, in New South Wales, from where about eight thousand local residents were evacuated the day before.

7. Numerous spiders weave a web of islands of land that are not flooded with water.

8. Basically, these are wolf spiders, which, fortunately, are not poisonous.

9. This behavior of spiders is quite typical in these conditions. A similar phenomenon was observed last year during the floods in Pakistan.

The event that took place in Australia horrified many residents of the small town of Goulburn. Millions of spiders rained down on them from the sky, and everything around was covered with a silvery web.

Australians reacted to this phenomenon in different ways. For some, it seemed like a scene from a horror movie, others perceived the spiders as harbingers of the imminent end of the world, and the rest demanded some explanation from scientists and soon received them.

Aeronautics and mass migrations of spiders are not uncommon, and it is they who cause an unusual phenomenon called “angel hair”. Every year, in May and August, newborn spiders are picked up by a gust of wind, and rising to a certain height, insects launch a thin web that allows them to stay in the air and migrate away from their “homeland” in order to continue their family in a new place. Certain weather conditions and an increase in the number of arachnoids contributed to what happened in Australia. The spiders anticipated the rains and, wishing to avoid death in the flooded area, all together rose into the air. And a strong wind made a small settlement the epicenter of their journey.

Such a phenomenon is actually not uncommon, it's just that spiders do not usually land on settlements in such numbers and do not attract public attention. Although this has happened a few times, for example, two years ago, a rain of insects fell over a small village in Brazil and in an uninhabited region of Texas in the United States. But fortunately for arachnophobes, none of the ballooning spiders is dangerous to humans.

Local residents, talking about what happened, noted that the spiders that fell to the ground caused them a lot of inconvenience, it was impossible to go outside so that the poutine would not stick to their legs, arms and get tangled in their hair. The very next morning, the cobweb blanket was gone, leaving only vivid memories.