Giant Spider Web in Texas

[CruelSummerLord]

Wow. Talk about your all-you-can-eat buffets...

Attercop! Attercop!

Tomnoddy! Tomnoddy!

 

[JustKim]

I think they'll probably be disappointed with what an entomology study can tell them. Communal webs happen whenever an egg hatches and tiny spiders all start spinning webs and moving away from their siblings to avoid being eaten. They're usually not nearly this big, but when unusually high rains lead to a boom in the mosquito population, there are more spider eggs and I would say in this case there's simply been a tremendous birth rate for spiders in the area. They will cannibalize each other until their population drops to sustainable levels.

 

[Soel]

The Demon Lands (lowest part of the map) in my Wilderlands campaign is a huge continent sized webworld, with a drive for territorial expansion, featuring every kind of spider-baddy you can think of from Phase Spiders to Xyvar (Denizens of Avadnu.) The web is alive...

Inspired by an old episode of Transformers featuring a web planet.

 

[Gez]

Oh, Jeez...

Thank you very much for those nightmares.

Nightmares? Au contraire! That's wonderful, and I want one like that nearby!

"There are times you can literally hear the screech of millions of mosquitoes caught in those webs."​

Oh, how sweet that music must be! I hate flies and mosquitoes so I can't dislike web-making spiders. The real nightmare would be if these millions of mosquitoes wouldn't be caught, and would instead go out to suck your blead and spread diseases or at least never-ending itches.

 

[Shade]

Wow...definitely nightmare-inducing.

 

[Nifft]

Lots and lots of Bannana Spiders... more than I could count.

The banana spiders I've seen have been quite large. If you mean the same ones, I'm very frightened.

Urk, -- N

 

[trollwad]

I live in Houston. Anything that eats mosquitoes is a blessing not a nightmare.

 

[Gentlegamer]

Note to self - stay the heck away from texas.

Why? There's fewer skeeters now.

 

[Gentlegamer]

I live in Houston. Anything that eats mosquitoes is a blessing not a nightmare.

Well said my Sam's Town brother!

 

[Shadeydm]

As an arachnaphobe I am really glad I don't live anywhere near Texas.