A Polish man said that he nearly had a “heart attack” after waking up on Halloween morning to find his garden covered in cobwebs.
Maciej Wąsiatycz from the city of Poznań in western Poland took to social media to post photos of his spider-ridden garden alongside the jokey caption: "Spiders gave me a Halloween makeover.”
The creepy pics, which received over 19,000 upvotes, show a thick white sheet of cobweb covering his whole lawn.
Wąsiatycz said that he had first noticed small threads on his flowers and assumed they were caused by spider mites.
But then, a few days later, his lawn turned white, and he realized something bigger must have invaded his garden.
The 28-year-old told Newsweek: “When I saw the entire lawn covered in webs after a few days, I almost had a heart attack!”
“I've seen something like this before in forests, where we call it "babie lato" [Indian summer], but never on this scale.”
According to German biomaterial expert Thomas Scheibel, sheet webs are made up of not just one type of spider silk “but typically several silks with different properties.”
However, there is currently no explanation for why the spiders migrated to Wąsiatycz’s garden in such numbers and in such a short amount of time.
The creepy pics, which received over 19,000 upvotes, show a thick white sheet of cobweb covering his whole lawn.
Wąsiatycz said that he had first noticed small threads on his flowers and assumed they were caused by spider mites.
But then, a few days later, his lawn turned white, and he realized something bigger must have invaded his garden.
The 28-year-old told Newsweek: “When I saw the entire lawn covered in webs after a few days, I almost had a heart attack!”
“I've seen something like this before in forests, where we call it "babie lato" [Indian summer], but never on this scale.”
According to German biomaterial expert Thomas Scheibel, sheet webs are made up of not just one type of spider silk “but typically several silks with different properties.”
However, there is currently no explanation for why the spiders migrated to Wąsiatycz’s garden in such numbers and in such a short amount of time.
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