Now thats a web...

Stonegiant · Post by **Stonegiant** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:57 am

Look what they found outside Dallas LINK if it was closer to Houston I would probably blame either Myth or North for LARPING

Mythmere · Post by **Mythmere** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:52 am

This summer I went to pick up one of my sons from camp, and got to see something similar ... a huge arching system of webs with spiders about three inches across all over them. We walked under this thing for about twenty feet before my other son freaked out and I had to take him back to the car. It was pretty spooky - definitely an Aragog's Lair sort of thing, if you read Harry Potter.

The webs we went through weren't so tightly packed as the ones in Dallas - they weren't like blankets, they formed an archlike shape that was still recognizable as spider webs. Actually, even though the one we saw wasn't maybe as unusual as the one in Dallas, it was actually cooler and more frightening precisely because it was still web-like.

TRP · Post by **TRP** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:19 pm

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Gentlegamer · Post by **Gentlegamer** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:16 pm

Mythmere wrote:It was pretty spooky - definitely an Aragog's Lair sort of thing, if you read Harry Potter.

I'm appalled the first analogy that came to your mind wasn't Shelob's Lair from The Lord of the Rings.

Harry Potter? Pffft.

Flambeaux · Post by **Flambeaux** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:33 pm

I'm having the same problem as TheRedPriest. I can't log in to see the image.

We had a beautiful web with a 3-5 inch spider in it on the grounds of our parish church just outside Dallas this weekend. I should have taken a picture.

JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:34 pm

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Me too.

I've seen pics of this in other places... it's pretty creepy.

Stonegiant · Post by **Stonegiant** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:44 pm

Sorry about the bad link

Here are the pictures-

This is what the article had to say-

Everything really is bigger in Texas. Even the spider webs. An eye-popping monster spider web has been spun by enterprising arachnids along a 200-yard stretch of trail in Lake Tawakoni State Park, which is located about 45 miles east of Dallas. The sprawling web blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground.
The Associated Press reports that entomologists from the United States and Canada are debating the origin and rarity of the web that has become a massive mosquito trap. "At first, it was so white it looked like fairyland," Donna Garde, superintendent of the park, told AP. "Now it's filled with so many mosquitoes that it's turned a little brown. There are times you can literally hear the screech of millions of mosquitoes caught in those webs."
Experts think the gigantic web was either made by social cobweb spiders that work together or is the result of a mass dispersal in which the spiders spin webs to spread out from one another. No matter it's cause, most entomologists think it is very rare. "From what I'm hearing it could be a once-in-a-lifetime event," Herbert A. "Joe" Pase, a Texas Forest Service entomologist, told AP. The web is expected to stay intact until fall when the spiders start to die.

Flambeaux · Post by **Flambeaux** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:44 am

Very cool. Thanks, Stonegiant.

Mordenkainen · Post by **Mordenkainen** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:14 am

The 2nd pic kinda reminds me of 'bag-worms', a species of caterpillar that feeds on the leaves of fruit/nug-bearing trees/shrubs. Very ugly. They haven't been that bad this year, but some years....WOW!

Big, humongous spider
went up the water spout
down came the rain and...
well, it didn't wash him out; it just made him mad!

Flambeaux · Post by **Flambeaux** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:26 pm

Those worms have been terrible this past year in the DFW Metroplex. Every six weeks or so my backyard has become uninhabitable.

On the bright side, it did give me an idea for an adventure...