As North America continues gearing up for winter , the Southern Hemisphere is in the midriff of its summer season . In particular , southeastern Brazil is forecasting hot , humid temperature with raining – spiders ?
Arachnophobes beware : this is about to get real . You read that right . When 14 - class - former João Pedro Martinelli Fonseca was traveling to chitchat his grandparents in their remote hometown about 250 klick ( 155 miles ) northeast of São Paulo , he looked to the sky only to notice it was cover in creepy , crawly , floating black dose .
Spoiler alert : the dots are spiders .
pic and cell - phone videos capture by the teen show one C of spider hang from the sky , which is likely “ raining spider ” . Yes , it is the stuff of nightmare but no , it ’s not as terrifying as it seems . As one local newspaperreports , biologists are quick to assure that the event is fairly common and comparatively harmless – to humans , at least .
Adalberto make Santos , a professor in the zoology section at the Federal University of Minas Gerais , toldThe Guardianthat this species of spider – Parawixia bistriata – does n’t have a harmful venom . According to a 2007 study published inAnimal Behaviour , this finicky species of wanderer will conquer and flow in groups look on certain environmental divisor , such as handiness and size of prey .
“ In addition , spiders from home ground with small level of prey ( dry land site ) had a gamey leaning to attack prey collectively than did spiders from stiff sites where prey floor were in high spirits , ” the report ’s author wrote .
The same affair happened in2013when a local photographer capture images of thousands of spider moving up and down their silk threads that were this metre attached to telephone wire , taking on the visual of an unusual blizzard lavish its little black-market flakes on ogling resident below .
“ This eccentric of wanderer is known to be quite social , ” biologist Marta Fischer toldSmithsonian Magazineat the time . “ They are usually in tree during the day and in the late afternoon and early even construct sort of giant rag of webs , so as to trap dirt ball . ”
Yeeeeah , we ’re still going to take a hard pass .
[ H / T : The Guardian ]
