Spiders trying to escape rising floodwaters in northern Tasmania have turned treetops white with silk thanks to a phenomenon known as ballooning, ABC.net.au reports.
Queensland Museum's head of arachnological division, Dr Robert Raven told the news outlet that spiders were using a technique known as ballooning — when they throw out silk filaments and catch a ride on the wind to higher ground - to escape the wet.
"It's just an amazing event of nature and should be thought of like that," he said.
"Many spiders are putting out the silk trying to get away and it's just forming a mat … there are hundreds and hundreds of spiders on that little tree."
Dr Raven said spiders could travel great distances using ballooning.
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Source: ABC.net.au
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