Thousands of spiders covered the city in Greece with a huge web. A PHOTO

Sounds like a description of a frame from a horror movie: a city covered with a huge thick web, under which swarms of spiders swarm. But for residents of one of the Greek cities, this turned out to be a frightening reality.

In Aitolico, the so-called city of canals, known locally as “Little Venice,” the unexpected happened - bushes, trees and boats along the lagoon were entangled in a dense web, writes CNN. What happened?

Giannis Jannakopoulos wrote about this phenomenon, who paid attention (and it was difficult not to pay!) To this strange phenomenon and took a photo of what was happening by posting pictures in social networks.

“There are a lot of insects in this area, so no one is particularly worried,” the man told CNN. “But I’ve never seen such big spiders in my life.”

Photos: Giannis Giannakopoulos / frame CNN video

This phenomenon is rarely found in nature in general and in Greece in particular, although cobwebs appeared before in different parts of the country.

Arakhnolog Maria Chatzaki says that such spider webs are always the same type of spiders: tetragnatid spiders. These are small creatures no more than 2 centimeters long, or 0.7 inches. An expert told reporters that cobwebs often turn into a kind of blanket that becomes home to the thousands of spiders living under them.

Greek biologist Fotis Pergantis, president of the Messolonghi Lagoon National Park, is sure that there is a simple explanation for what is happening. In addition to the phenomenon as such, according to the expert, there is another important point: midges, a favorite delicacy of spiders, accumulate under the web.

Small mosquito-like insects with a life expectancy of two to three days, midges use most of their lifetimes for reproduction. They actively develop and produce in conditions of high temperatures and a humid environment. And since the air temperature in Aitoliko has recently been ideal for mosquitoes, according to Pergantis, the mosquito bred too actively.

Photos: Giannis Giannakopoulos / frame CNN video

With the growing population of midges, spiders, in turn, also thrive and multiply.

“It's a simple predator-prey phenomenon,” Pergantis says. — These are natural reactions of the ecosystem. Once temperatures start to drop and mosquito populations die out, spider numbers will decline as well.”

Photos: Giannis Giannakopoulos / frame CNN video

Neither mosquitoes nor spiders of this type are dangerous to humans. But the residents of Aitoliko will have to seriously attend to cleaning.

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