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| Photo taken in Sindh in Southern Pakistan |
Due to the recent unprecedented severe and wide-scale flooding in several areas of Pakistan, millions of spiders had "colonized" several trees in order to escape the rising floodwaters. And because the waters had taken an unusually long time to recede, the spiders had spun thick webs around many trees.
While spider webs are not an unusual sight to see in Pakistan, particularly during the cyclone [hurricane] and rainy season, this is, however, the very first time that many trees had been nearly completely covered by a mosquito net-like drape of closely-woven, silky spider webs.
An unexpected blessing from the unusual phenomenon is the fact that there had been a drastic reduction in mosquitoes despite the stagnant waters, and there had hardly been any cases of malaria because the mosquitoes had gotten entangled and stuck in the spider webs, where they became a "feast" for the spiders. –Source/Photographer Unknonw
While spider webs are not an unusual sight to see in Pakistan, particularly during the cyclone [hurricane] and rainy season, this is, however, the very first time that many trees had been nearly completely covered by a mosquito net-like drape of closely-woven, silky spider webs.
An unexpected blessing from the unusual phenomenon is the fact that there had been a drastic reduction in mosquitoes despite the stagnant waters, and there had hardly been any cases of malaria because the mosquitoes had gotten entangled and stuck in the spider webs, where they became a "feast" for the spiders. –Source/Photographer Unknonw
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