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World's Biggest Spider Web Covers 180 Meters [PICS]

wackyarchives.com — This might be one of the biggest, if not the biggest spiderweb ever found. This huge web was found covering 180 meters of trees and bushes by the employees of park Lake Tawakoni in Texas.

Who dugg this? Made popular Feb 29, 2008

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  • slvrbullet87, on 02/29/2008, -5/+116Those people in the picture are stupid... havent they ever played a video game? Get out your shotgun/flamethrower and fire a warning shot to get that big ***** to come out.
  • LaRue05, on 02/29/2008, -11/+77OLD!! OLD!! Fuking OLD!!
    Oh, and it's blog spam, not even the original article.... LAME
  • degron, on 02/29/2008, -2/+50I guess everything really is bigger in Texas.
  • alkajazz, on 02/29/2008, -1/+48It's a trap!
  • jeremyduffy, on 02/29/2008, -3/+43They don't know if it was a single spider or many? I'd hate the see the spider that could spin that thing by itself!
  • geneticlemon, on 02/29/2008, -2/+35Shelob?
  • Shiftyeyedgoat, on 02/29/2008, -1/+30Yeah, let's piss off the giant spider with the ability to make 540 feet of spider webs.

    That's a fantastic idea.
  • Nobiting, on 02/29/2008, -0/+25yeah, a few deer and a tourist.
  • Coolone84, on 02/29/2008, -0/+20Burn it!!
  • Hitpoint, on 02/29/2008, -4/+24Do not want!
  • twertyto, on 02/29/2008, -4/+23IM IN UR TREEZ, MAKIN MA HAUSE.
  • ProjectGSX, on 02/29/2008, -0/+19Welcome to last year. Nice to see everyone catching up.
  • Hobbes24, on 02/29/2008, -1/+19...that's a space station...
  • chewbacca77, on 02/29/2008, -2/+18Quick! Who's got some blue herbs?
  • jsreid, on 02/29/2008, -2/+18that would creep the hell out of me.
  • maxyRO, on 02/29/2008, -6/+22Spidey wuz here!
  • Jadey, on 02/29/2008, -1/+16Holy *****! I missed the word "web" and just read, "World's biggest spider covers 180 meters". Ack! Now I have to change my pants :(
  • Ajajadude, on 02/29/2008, -0/+14Hey, it could be fun.

    ...while watching from a satellite feed half-a-world away...
  • TecK415, on 02/29/2008, -1/+15It's actually thousands of smaller spider webs, forming one giant one.
  • Thugacation, on 02/29/2008, -0/+13IT'S A TRAP!
  • twertyto, on 02/29/2008, -2/+12That's no spider web...
  • judicar, on 02/29/2008, -6/+16It's a giant dupe that's for sure ... welcome to 6 months ago.
    http://digg.com/general_sciences/Giant_Spider_web_ ...
  • Treecake, on 02/29/2008, -0/+10This has been added to my list of horrific things that I must never witness.
  • dannenberg, on 02/29/2008, -4/+13I like animals.
  • Dumbledorito, on 02/29/2008, -0/+9So do these spiders, apparently.
  • TecK415, on 02/29/2008, -1/+9Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologist Mike Quinn was that it may have resulted from a “mass dispersal” event. In such an event, millions of tiny spiders or spiderlings spin out silk filaments to ride air currents in a phenomenon known as “ballooning.”

    Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/07091 ...
  • coredump0x01, on 02/29/2008, -1/+9I hear he's one hell of a web designer.
  • RiotKiller, on 02/29/2008, -1/+9i think that spider has way to much time on its hands.
  • k0001, on 02/29/2008, -0/+7don't do that!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • IceSabre, on 02/29/2008, -0/+7This is a couple of months old even though the "artcile" was new. Was last fall IIRC. It was millions of spiders, not one. The park people said that it was most odd because the type of spiders involved are not naturally communal. Was actually thinking about driving over to see it but 1) there would be thousands of other people by the time I heard it and 2) it didn't really last that long. Around 4 or 5 days if I remember.
  • Nougat, on 02/29/2008, -0/+7Considering that spiders have a generally short lifespan, it had to have been more than one spider.
  • MrJavodotCom, on 02/29/2008, -4/+11giant webs O.O
  • kss42, on 02/29/2008, -0/+6Infernal Parasite
    GHOMA
  • twertyto, on 02/29/2008, -1/+7If you're going to invoke Tolkien then you need to bring it!

    Ungoliant?
  • bigdoug2005, on 02/29/2008, -4/+10180 meters, huh? It's 180 meters long?
    I'm pretty positive you meant 180 square meters. Learn your units because only 0 makes sense without them.
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  • FLLawLibrarian, on 02/29/2008, -0/+5OMG... imagine walking into that thing in the dark.... damn. Game over, man
  • mavrick24, on 02/29/2008, -1/+6Is that Frodo and Sam?
  • KingGorilla, on 02/29/2008, -0/+5well said
  • Dylson, on 02/29/2008, -0/+5Thats the spider that spun the interwebs.
  • L4WL3RS34L, on 02/29/2008, -0/+4Yeah, this was some news a few months ago about spiders invading some Texas national park. This is NOT the world's biggest spider web.
  • UltraKill, on 02/29/2008, -0/+4I once had a tarantula (Goliath bird eater) named Itchy...
    http://pets.webshots.com/photo/1195985757060107289

    It was awesome to look at, but incredibly painful to hold...
    I was never bitten, but the hairs... omfg the urticating hairs were so incredibly painful!
  • Dumbledorito, on 02/29/2008, -2/+6Wasn't this an episode of the X-Files?
  • gmiley, on 02/29/2008, -0/+4Made of butt yarn and dead mosquitoes... can't wait!
  • linuxpenguin, on 02/29/2008, -0/+4Then there's water everywhere. . .
  • Tanooki, on 02/29/2008, -2/+5BURN IT!!!!!!! BURN IT WITH FIRE!!!!!!!!!!@@212121`q233132!#@!q@!q!#@!Q32!Q@#!
  • inactive, on 02/29/2008, -0/+3Aragog
  • inactive, on 02/29/2008, -0/+3Lolth was here
  • ep53, on 02/29/2008, -0/+3Tree spiders are watching you masturbate.
  • Medicamusic, on 10/28/2008, -0/+3beat me to it. dugg.
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