Spider web trees and the world's largest spider web are a phenomenon of nature.
The vagaries of nature test even animals, which have to adapt to survive.
This is the case of spiders in a region of Pakistan, which have had to move to the treetops, creating a spooky scenario .
The great floods suffered in Pakistan have caused millions of spiders to move to the treetops so as not to drown.
There they have created a curious landscape in the Sindh region, in which the fabrics extend from one tree to another, completely covering them in a gigantic web as if it were a strange cotton candy.
Rarely has something similar been seen, and this time, in addition to the strange landscape, it has a positive effect, and that is that millions of mosquitoes have been trapped, which in the area has reduced the risk of contracting malaria.
But it is not the only novelty in the arachnid world, also in recent weeks biologists have found the longest and strongest spider web in the world.
It has been found in Madagascar, and the tenant spider is Caerostrisdarwini, or "Darwin's bark spider," of enormous proportions and whose species has also recently been discovered.
This "spider" is capable of manufacturing the most resistant biological material in the world, a hard silk of 2.8 square meters that suspends through rivers up to 25 meters wide.
It is so powerful, that the fabric can trap a multitude of prey at the same time and not break, in fact it is 10 times more resistant than the kevlar, so its use in bulletproof vests is already being studied.
Source: Steemit.
Several species of arachnids use a special system of displacement and survival in extreme situations.
ReplyDeleteBallooning, in general, is a displacement system that has been observed in spiders as a survival and population dispersal response, and is known and has been documented in several areas of the world.
In fact, these photos correspond to the province of Buenos Aires in Argentina after a period of heavy flooding.
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