Spiders Built Massive Communal Webs In Texas

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In the Dallas suburb of Rowlett, thousands of tiny spiders have covered a series of trees with webs in a communal food-catching effort that has some residents a bit freaked out.

Typically, you'd see a spider working by itself to build a web. 

However, on a football-field length of CA Roan Drive in Rowlett, Texas, thousands of spiders have come together to build a massive series of communal webs 40 feet into the trees. 


The species of spider responsible for the community-oriented web construction is not yet known, but is likely to be a member of the Tetragnathidae family, who made similar shroud-like work in neighboring Lake Tawakoni