News, Thousands of spiders blanket Australian farm after escaping flood. (homes, spider)

[JD59]

Thousands of normally solitary wolf spiders have blanketed an Australian farm after fleeing a rising flood.

Reuters reports that the flooding has forced more than 8,000 Australian (human) residents from their homes in the city of Wagga Wagga in New South Wales. But for every temporarily displaced person, it appears several spiders have moved in to fill the void.


Thousands of spiders blanket Australian farm after escaping flood | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News

[Derek40]

Quite a bizarre phenomenon, looks like some sort of weather event.
I am glad that the levee banks just held out the Wagga Wagga CBD from total devesatation.
I was down in Wagga in 2010 for a conference, when there was similar problems, the flooded Murrumbidgee River was just awesome to look at, with trees half submerged under water all way up to Gundagai.

[Joe90]

I saw the spiders on the news the other night. Very unusual. It reminded me of a scene from that epic movie-Kingdom of the Spiders. Biking back from town that night, everyone was on "spider watch".