Well, I went to get my newspaper early this evening through another dark, thick wall of Vancouver X-Files type fog. I noticed the front page of the Vancouver Sun (and continued on Page A4): "MILLIONS OF TINY SPIDERS SPIN MYSTERY IN A B.C. CLOVER FIELD...60-acre spider web baffles biologists." The paper had several pictures, and let me tell you, they are strange--- scary! I mean down right X-Files eerie! Where is Mulder when you need him?

Here's the first sentence of this Friday feature article. "A warning: if the thought of tens of millions of tiny spiders spinning a web 24 hectares---60 acres---in size and crawling all over it scares the wits out of you, you might want to tread carefully over the following...."

http://www.vancouversun.com

60 acres? That's mighty big, even for Texas standards. Here's how large we grow 'em down in these parts (although Argiope is pretty much a solitary creature... there are indeed millions of them, but not all in one place):

http://www.indianhorse.com/critters/argiope.htm

How bizarre! I'd have loved to have seen that.

I can just imagine "Final Draft" cranking up on countless computers, inspired by this story.

I would have loved to have gotten that on camera. Who could replicate such a thing? Would there be a need for it? Maybe not, but I'm a pack rat - including what I shoot! I would have loved to have had footage of that 60 acre web!

Mark, I don't think they destroyed it. The biologists are studying it---but then I haven't read the whole article yet.

I wanted to show the article to my mother. My wife freaked-out with, "Don't! It'll give your mother a heart attack!"

There was a blurb about this on today's late night news..., most of the webs are now destroyed due to recent rain and heavy winds.

Frank,
In what direction was the wind blowing when the spiders were last seen? Can you imagine a cloud of thousands.... perhaps millions of spiders being carried by the wind to another destination? Better keep a can of insect repellant handy while walking outside at night!

Good luck, Nick

The news said that the spiders were in the hundreds of millions. The wind is taking the little things AWAY from Vancouver (maybe towards Texas).

The wind can carry them wherever it wants to - as long as my car/apartment is NOT in the middle of the sixty acres!!! But if this were to happen again with a couple of hours of where I live, I would go get as much footage as I can!

It kind of reminded me of the new HARRY POTTER movie. It has a 'big spider' scene too!

Just saw this article on UFO sightings in the UK. Reminded me of this thread:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20021128/sc_nm/space_ufos_dc_1

Spooky!!

Very interesting. Now the UK has its very own Roswell!