Giant webs as spiders ride silk parachutes, lay down safety lines to escape floodsTVNZ Spiders spin the web every autumn to balloon into the air before they disperse. When Tracey Maris and her family went to a local park in the Tauranga suburb on Sunday, they found the mound covered with spider silk. At least one family member found small spiders crawling all over his legs when he walked into the silk. Some small spiders make small silk parachutes and are blown by the wind to safety, while others leave behind a kind of safety line of silk as they climb to a higher point. READ MORE:* The stickiest field in NZ: Spiders knit massive 30 metre shimmering web in Tauranga* Millions of swamp spiders spin mega web* Raining spiders?

Source: Stuff April 18, 2017 02:21 UTC