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 . . .
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h288/Indianasmith/6Oct07WindPointWebs.jpg)
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h288/Indianasmith/6Oct07Treetopwebs2.jpg)
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h288/Indianasmith/6Oct07TreetopWebs.jpg)
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h288/Indianasmith/6Oct07WebsonGround.jpg)
We'd had a bit of wind, and there were chunks of web on the ground, many of them crawling with small spiders.
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h288/Indianasmith/6Oct07SecondSetofWebs.jpg)
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.
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h288/Indianasmith/6Oct07Webupclose.jpg)
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h288/Indianasmith/6Oct07Websupclose.jpg)
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h288/Indianasmith/6Oct07Webinhand.jpg)
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 . . .
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h288/Indianasmith/6Oct07Spider1.jpg)
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h288/Indianasmith/6Oct07Spider2.jpg)
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 . . .
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h288/Indianasmith/6Oct07NoGiantSpidershere.jpg)
Hey, that's something right out of a 50 Sci-Fi Horror film. Is that you pointing up IndianaSmith? We need more "on location" reports like this one badmovies.org members. Thanks for the photos and investigative report.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/lake_tawakoni/ (http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/lake_tawakoni/)
That's me in all my glory. If anything weird pops up in North Texas, I'm on it!
Quote from: indianasmith on October 06, 2007, 08:43:07 PM
That's me in all my glory. If anything weird pops up in North Texas, I'm on it!
If that were to read "Anything weirder than me", we might believe it. :tongueout:
What's that on your shirt Indiana?
A giant tick?
Or is it a spider?
Man, that must have been very surreal! That's just a kerazy amount of webbing! I take it the spiders have taken over your part of town now, and you must all give away your first-born as sacrifice to the new Spider Overlords of your township?
Actually, I am leading a group of flamethrower-wielding vigilantes torching every giant spider in sight, and throwing skunk musk on their human collaborators . . . . :teddyr:
Kingdom Of The Spiders
[youtube=425,350]http://youtube.com/watch?v=TEutHPsF548
Tarantula
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dpQPvNjOthE (http://youtube.com/watch?v=dpQPvNjOthE)
The Spider
http://youtube.com/watch?v=U5QdIImNs0g (http://youtube.com/watch?v=U5QdIImNs0g)