If we see a spider, we tend to scream and await for a brave soul to come forth and save us. Although they’re mainly small and totally innocent, some people just cannot stand the eight-legged creatures.
And, if you’re one of those individuals, we think today you should be thankful you don’t live in Australia – where it’s been raining spiders.
Yes, the sky has been flooded with them in a phenomenon called ‘ballooning’. This is where baby spiders climb to the top of trees or other tall plants and release a silk balloon that carries them. Sometimes, they can travel for over two miles using this method.
Astounded locals told The Sydney Morning Herald that their homes and gardens had been “invaded by spiders”.
“The whole place was covered in these little black spiderlings and when I looked up at the sun it was like this tunnel of webs going up for a couple of hundred metres into the sky, one man said.
“I’m 10 minutes out of town and you can clearly see hundreds of little spiders floating along with their webs and my home is covered in them. You couldn't go out without getting spider webs on you. And I've got a beard as well, so they kept getting in my beard.”
Someone pass that man a razor…