Memphis Neighborhood Overrun By Millions Of Spiders After They Spin A Half-Mile Long Web

NYDN- Millions of spiders have taken over a Memphis neighborhood, building a web in a field that is a whopping half-mile long. It’s a nightmare for residents, and just imagine how scary it is for those who cope with arachnophobia — the fear of spiders. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” Frances Ward told Action News 5. “It’s like a horror movie. Never seen nothing like this before. They’re in the air, flying everywhere. They all on the house, on the side of the windows.” Experts say that the small spiders probably were there for a while, but just went unnoticed. “It could be juveniles, millions, in a big emergence event, or adults of a tiny species, probably a sheetweb spider — leaving for some reason possibly knowable only to them,” Memphis Zoo curator Steve Reichling tells the station. “In fields and meadows, there are often literally millions of spiders doing their thing, unseen and unappreciated by us.

Well that’s a big ol’ glass of nope.  There’s only one thing to do in this situation. Do what they did after the Chernobyl disaster. Just leave the area. Everybody out, nobody in and never go back.  Grab what you can. Grab the essentials and make your home elsewhere. People can stay if they want but they run the risk of being eaten by millions of spiders as they sleep. I talk a lot about the war against spiders.  How you should kill every spider you see because that’s a win for the good guys (humans). One less spider breathing is one less spider that’ll scare another innocent human being while they’re taking a dump.  Well we lost this one. Simple as that. A good army knows when to cut it’s losses. That north Memphis neighborhood belongs to the arachnid army now. It hurts but no battle is without it’s losses. There is another option I suppose. Either go the Chernobyl route or get all the people outta there and napalm the entire area every day for 6 months or even a year.  Burn it all down. Start from scratch.  That is the only way I’d even think about living there again.

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