That is so damn cool. I know EXACTLY how Moxmaiden, myself, and the expansion sets are spending our Labor Day. Now I just have to charge up the batteries in the RC boats and helicopter, research geocaches in that area, do some minor maintenance on a couple bikes, and find my gorram camera. If all goes well I’ll have some good pics to post on Tuesday.
That wasn’t a picture of tent caterpillar webs, I saw the same (or similar) picture in the New York Times accompanying an article about a strange spider colony that appeared in a nature preserve in Texas. Out of the ordinary for spiders in temperate climates, but some species in the tropics do this.
Nope, definitely spiders. Here’s some info from local Entomologists. Their speculation is that this is a dispersal event, rather than a food-harvesting cooperative effort. So instead of it being a community, it’s a launching point for the inveitable invasion.
That’ll happen around the time the sun goes nova. The mosquito population wouldn’t even feel a twinge, even if hundreds more webs like this sprung up.