You may have seen on the forum last month the story that was just made for a place like this - of the giant, 200 yard spiderweb that was running along the length of a trail at Lake Tawakoni State Park. That area is about an hour away but outside my usual running grounds, and when I tried to drive over there one afternoon I could not find the road that led to this (relatively) new park. A good investigator never gives up, however, and the giant spider webs have beenon my mind ever since. So this week when the local papers carried the story of a SECOND giant network of webs being spun at Wind Point Park, which is 20 minutes from my house and a long-time stomping ground of mine, I packed my kids up in the Nissan this afternoon and we made a little investigation into this phenomenon . . . .
Here is the first view I had of the giant web network. It spans nearly 100 yards and connects about a dozen or so trees . . .
We'd had a bit of wind, and there were chunks of web on the ground, many of them crawling with small spiders.
This second network of webs was located about half mile away. Not as long, it was more visible since these trees are relatively isolated.
Some up close shots.
I figured with this much webbing there must be a VERY large spider lurking somewhere but all we could find were these normal sized ones . . .
So I can say with all honesty that the reports of huge, purple spiders lurking in the trees and jumping on people's shirts when they are not looking are emphatically NOT true . . .
