WASHINGTON: Millions of tiny spiders began raining down on a small town in South Australia a few days ago, almost blotting out the sun and covering everything with their mounds of silken parachutes. Terrified residents didn’t know what to think of the “spider rain.”
We all know what it means when someone tells us it’s “raining cats and dogs,” but raining spiders? A few people in the Southern Tablelands town of Goulburn though they were being invaded by the tiny spiders while another resident reported his home was covered in the webs. But few people realize the phenomenon is not that unusual.
Resident Ian Watson said his house looked like it had been taken over by the creepy-crawly little 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 meters into the sky.”
The event that recently occurred in Australia is known as “spider rain,” or to some people, as “angel hair” because of the silken threads left behind. And this angel hair can cover everything. But a natural occurrence? Well, yes, say experts in spiders, known as arachnologists.
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