In North Texas this summer, at Lake Tawokoni State Park, the spiders have come to live. And these spiders are doing it in a 200-yard (182 meters) web.

 

Yes, it sounds and looks like one of those classic science fiction movies from the 1970s, where the town is webbed over and eaten by a bunch of spiders. But luckily, the only victims this web has claimed is a lot of bugs. And maybe given the creeps to a few human visitors that have passed by.

 

The 200 yards of web drapes itself from several trees, bushes, and even along the ground.

 

Donna Garde, the superintendent of the park, said, “At first, it was so white it looked like fairyland. 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.”

 

A local Texas Forest Service entomologist, Herbert A. Pace, believes this to be a very rare event and could even possibly be a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence. But the author of “A Field Guide to the Spiders and Scorpions of Texas”, John Jackman, disagrees. He says there are reports of similar webs every few years and that many just do not know that spiders are capable of such large masterpieces.

 

Obviously, an individual spider could not accomplish such a feat as this enormous web. It has actually taken a group of them to achieve this webbed wonderland.