A story that went viral this week about spider webs blanketing an Australian city is not entirely accurate.
What the spiders were doing was creating a line of silk, not webs, an entomologist has told Discovery News. The arachnid at the root of the story, a wolf spider, doesn't even make webs.
So, what these images show are massive amounts of dragline silk released by the normally solitary spiders as they ran for their lives to escape rising floodwaters. According to Reuters, flooding forced more than 8,000 human residents from their homes in the city of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.
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