Angel hair is a scary beautiful sight (5 photos)

Periodically, in some corners of the Earth, people observe a strange and amazing phenomenon.





Eyewitnesses call it "angel hair", cobweb-like veils and much more, but when faced with it for the first time or even Once in a lifetime, it's hard to describe. Fortunately, these days there is the Internet, in where you can read the article and understand what you are facing.

obvious and probable

After one of these rare events, the people of Australia began describe what you see on your pages in social networks.



Someone at first confused the web with a grid on the side of the road, and when I realized that this was a work of spiders, I was delighted. Another resident was seriously frightened by the army of spiders that appeared on his site and urged to call scientists. There were those who were fascinated by this unusual phenomenon, like a thunderstorm: both scary and beautiful at the same time. Everything was wrapped unusually thin cobweb, as if covered with the lightest transparent blanket. In some places, the length of the continuous web reached a kilometer, can you imagine?

Is there an explanation

It was more pleasant to observe this rare phenomenon because The weather the day before was very terrible. Veils that look like gossamer, more precisely, a web resembling a veil on a lady's hat appears after prolonged torrential rains. Heavy rains hit the region hurricane wind. As a result of bad weather, somewhere people were left without electricity, someone flooded along with the car. Not only people fled from the flood, but also spiders.





Experts call similar spider survival tactics "flights in a balloon": spiders throw out their silk thread, to use it to rise to the top. Spiders need to act very quickly, almost lightning fast, to protect themselves from flooding. Spiders throw silk onto surrounding trees, bushes, and buildings to get hooked. The scale of the deployed web directly depends on the scale revelry of the natural elements. Between two Australian cities after one such storm formed large web sheets, which covered all wetlands. In general, this kind of migration spiders are used to travel all over the world. Fortunately for arachnophobes, when the weather improves, the spiders scatter, and in general, none of the species spiders weaving such webs are not dangerous to humans.



In addition to arachnologists, this phenomenon is also of interest to townsfolk. One Australian citizen began to collect information, interview eyewitnesses and look for documentary evidence of these phenomena in past. He found only one photograph from the 1970s. Of course, just the phenomenon is rarely seen, but people who see it for the first time are sometimes lost and do not have time to photograph it until the web is gone. Blanket from cobwebs may disappear by morning if the night was cold.