A photo from open sources
Look at the photo: it does not remind you of an underwater garden with a lot of jellyfish?
This is the illusion Cyrtophora’s spiders created the park-reserve of the Australian city of Port Macquarie, since abundantly braided the meadow grass, stretching their white ones in the form of “jellyfish” web tents. Especially great it all looks in predawn hours – a real magical garden of a unique the underwater world.
Some locals, recently faced with this for the first time unusual phenomenon in the park, even thought that in their hometown it snowed at night (this can be expected today and summer, and even in Africa). However, having figured out what was happening, none of them remained indifferent to this truly fantastic picture created from neatly hung cobwebs in perfect shape that literally mesmerizing.
A photo from open sources
Here’s what Katherine Park ranger says about it. Mardell:
All spiders are different, and their webs are not similar to one. another one. In addition, most arthropods have their web networks deployed only during the day, and in the evening they are removed, and others for some reason they do not collect them at night. But, nevertheless, the most a vivid picture of this “underwater world” becomes precisely at dawn and sunset, when all this wealth shimmers in dewdrops (or moist fumes) under oblique rays of the sun. By the way, spiders, who do not put “traps” at night, in the morning they are intensely repaired and generally perfect view of the spider meadow is being restored.
Park staff also clarified that most arthropods Cyrtophora is young, and this season it is unlikely to live to the full growing up. However, already as a positive result can be considered even the fact that the spiders chose a city park for their colony, presenting both scientists and citizens in general such a pleasant surprise, thereby confirming that from an environmental point of view in Port Macquarie is fine …
Illusions Insects
