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20 May 2015 12:31:03
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Picture of the day: the invasion of spiders in Australia

the Australian Goulburn covered with cobwebs.

which year the Australian Goulburn in New South Wales literally covers web. Unusual (and scary) at first glance, the phenomenon is actually trivial migration of small spiders.

Photo: Reuters

Biologists call the phenomenon "hair angels". For the first time in Australia it was documented in 1914, and later was observed on other continents, but not on this scale.

the Web the earth was covered because of small spiders travellers. They are specially weave cobweb, climb higher and give myself to the will of the wind. It can be as seasonal migration, and fled after the floods and heavy rains. To us, this phenomenon seems to be the picture of Hollywood horror movies, but the residents of New South Wales to him have long been accustomed.


Photo: Reuters

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