Trees Cocooned in Spider Webs After Flood
 

Rather eerie pictures, anyone for some tree climbing!:dead:
http://images.nationalgeographic.com...26_600x450.jpg
http://news.nationalgeographic.com.a...er-trees-webs/
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/spider-we...an-trees.shtml

Looks like those things caterpillars make to me.

They look nothing like a bulldozer

Oah wait, not that one, the one that is a big... that's names spelling (if it is any different) escapes me now.

Word you looking for?
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/7268/cocoon1f.jpg

Don't you just them!
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...4zcMnSm5fx&t=1
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/img/2007/...ting_sp_lg.jpg
http://www.gold-coast-aus.com/femalefunelweb.jpg

Back when I was a teenager, there was this bush in front of my house to the left of the front door. I remember one summer day, I walked out the door and noticed that the entire bush was in a web cocoon that had sprung up literally overnight. Sitting near the top in a little tunnel structure was this HUGE (at least 4-5 inches long) and very tired looking wood spider. That thing could sense movement of anything in that bush. If I dropped a bug anywhere on the bush, the spider would speed around the bush to grab it.

The spiders rest their legs on different lines on the web that way they can feel the movement of something caught inside the web somehow they are able to tell the difference between prey that has been captured and merely the wind moving the web.

I tried a few times when I was a kid tricking what we call Banana Spiders but they never seemed to get fooled by my fake movements of the web.The Banana spiders make a huge web that has a very sturdy center their silk is very strong and sticky even in thinner areas the webs are often 7 or 8 feet high I bet that a small bird would be unable to get out of the web if it got caught though I have never seen evidence of it actually happening.

I was viewing some show a few weeks back on National Geographic they where in Texas and they where looking at this massive web like the one in those trees in the op picture but in this case it was covering one very large oak tree it was much larger than the webs in the op photo.

Is this a spiders version of "circling the wagons?"

Horrible buggas...never have liked them :nope:

http://www.shoutingatco.ws/blog/wp-c...pider_hand.jpg

Just stopped by to top off the old nightmare fuel tank. If anyone wants me I'll be over here in the corner crying softly into a pillow.

That spider is common here Jim, that type of huntsman can grow to 7", the biggest I have seen was 6.5" but stuffed if I'm gonna pick one up!:oops:

I must admit I don't like them at any size but the bigger they are the more concerned I become.