Millions of spiders overrun neighborhood

Thousands of spiders have taken over a Memphis neighborhood, building a web in a field that is a whopping half-mile long.

Local news channels reported there were millions of spiders at the scene, with residents desperate that the town takes a few action.

News footage from WMC showed a half-mile long silvery web along the roadside.

Memphis Zoo curator Steve Reichling explained: “It’s a mass dispersal of the millions of tiny spiders that have always been in that field, unnoticed till now. Never seen nothing like this before”, resident named Frances Ward told WMC Action News 5. She stated that the occurrence is “quite common”, with wind currents often carrying young spiders through “ballooning” to the same area, where they settle down and make their homes. The eight-legged problem is causing headaches for the homeowners.

‘There are kids running around. They are in the air, flying everywhere.

A giant spider’s web stretching for one kilometre and covered in millions of arachnids has appeared overnight in a small Memphis, Tennessee suburb. This is now a good sign, indicating that these spiders are living in harmony with nature in that location, as a telltale sign of a healthy ecosystem. One thing tells us the residents of North Memphis, Tennessee, might want to think about enrolling ASAP. Residents were calling for authorities to order spraying and cleaning the massive web up, anxious that a spider could bite someone.

Professor Rob Bennet, an expert at the Royal British Columbia Museum, identified the spiders at the time as sheetweb weaver spiders.

This web wasn’t spun where it was located, it became airborne as part of the natural dispersing process of juvenile spiders.

Riechart said there is nothing to worry about these spiders as they are “totally harmless”.