The mysterious giant spider web

Entomologists are arguing about the origin of a rare spider web covering a few big trees, countless shrubs and spreading on the ground along 180 meters of a trail in a park in North Texas, USA.

Officials at Lake Tawakoni Park said this huge mosquito trap was a big attraction for some travelers, while others sought to stay away from it.

" At first, it looked as white as a fairy ," said Donna Garde, overseeing the park. "Now it's so crowded with mosquitoes that it turns a little brown. There are times when you can hear the screeching of millions of mosquitoes caught in this net."

Experts say the network can be created by social spiders that work together, or it could be the result of a large dispersal in which the spider webs are created one after another, the one after another.

Herbert A. " Joe " Pase, an entomologist, said the giant spider web is a very unusual event. "From what I know it could be a lifetime event to see once," he said. However, another professor at Texas A&M University said he was often reported about similar spider webs.

The network will last until autumn, when the spiders start to die.

The giant spider web appeared a few weeks ago. (Photo: AP)

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