A rain of spiders in Brazil

Nature is full of amazing and sometimes horrific events. A good example: people falling from the sky spiders in the state of Minas Gerais in southern Brazil.

Although it seems that the spiders falling down, in fact they are in giant slim wide web, which is almost invisible to the naked eye. At the end of the video you can see how they move around their spherical network.

The video was filmed by a local resident Pedro Martinelli, who drove to the farm of their relatives near Sao Paulo. Seeing a lot of black dots in the sky, the man froze in astonishment. But his grandmother said that this phenomenon is quite common in the region, especially in the summer when hot and humid weather:

"We've had a lot more cobwebs and spiders. They appeared in the hot days with the onset of twilight."

Professor of biology specializing in arachnology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, explained that the evening Parawixia bistriata work together, weaving a network of up to 4 metres wide and 3 metres thick. At dawn, the spiders eat the prey caught in a spider web during the night, and then spend all day hiding in the vegetation. These spiders are harmless to humans and help control the insects in the region.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»