Arachnophobia?

Got Arachnophobia? Here’s Your Worst Nightmare


National
Got Arachnophobia? Here’s Your Worst Nightmare
By GRETEL C. KOVACH
Published: August 31, 2007
The discovery of a vast web crawling with millions of spiders spreading across several acres of a North Texas park is causing a stir.

Excerpt:

Most spiders are solitary creatures. So the discovery of a vast web crawling with millions of spiders that is spreading across several acres of a North Texas park is causing a stir among scientists, and park visitors.

Sheets of web have encased several mature oak trees and are thick enough in places to block out the sun along a nature trail at Lake Tawakoni State Park, near this town about 50 miles east of Dallas.

The gossamer strands, slowly overtaking a lakefront peninsula, emit a fetid odor, perhaps from the dead insects entwined in the silk. The web whines with the sound of countless mosquitoes and flies trapped in its folds.


Comments: We are planning on go to Dallas mid-October. Could be an interesting side trip!