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Seeing strange trees in the neighborhood light brown elongated objects, resident of Australia I was perplexed. Unusual “fruits” resembled exotic fruit and at the same time fantastic alien cocoons.
Because the trees on which they “grew” are not fruity, the woman found the objects sinister. Shooting them, she posted a photo on Facebook and asked users about it: what is this It hangs on the branches of trees adjacent to my house plot and looks a bit sinister, why am I worried.
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The mystery began to clear up when a woman said that incomprehensible “fruits” surrounds the web. In response to this, several commentators suggested that cocoons are the work of bolas spiders that don’t weave ordinary nets, and hunt with the help of a long cobweb, ending with a sticky drop. On this drop they catch their victims how a fisherman catches a fish or a cowboy throws a lasso on a cow.
Bolas spiders live in Australia, Africa and America. Cocoons built after mating, females, wrapping in cobwebs and hanging on trees fertilized eggs – several hundred in each capsule.
Hatching, little spiders descend on the thinnest cobwebs. For people, bolas are not dangerous, but a woman is by no means pleased with the resolution of the puzzle: now she is afraid that the spiders will fill the whole territory of her site …
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