Thursday, August 30, 2007

Lake Tawakoni visitors Giant spider web

Spidey (probably) had nothing to do with this giant expanse of spun-silk webbing now under scutiny at Lake Tawakoni State Park, about 45 miles east of Dallas.

Arachnid scholars from all over the country are slobbering over themselves to get more information out of Texas Parks & Wildlife biologist Mike Quinn, who would just like them to quit bugging him (ahem) and get their thoraxes on out to the nature trail, so they can see for themselves the 200-yard expanse of Hollywood-worthy spook-prop that nature's own denizens have constructed - entirely without human direction.

Creepiest detail: "There are times you can literally hear the screech of millions of mosquitoes caught in those webs." Yikes.

Perhaps they should put a magnifying glass on some of those screeching the loudest...