A spider’s web grander than any you could possibly dream up has draped the Aitoliko Lagoon in Western Greece. The waterfront currently sports a cobweb that astoundingly sprawls nearly 1,000 feet.
The nightmarish cobwebs are the result of mating season for Tetragnatha spiders, commonly known as stretch spiders. A population increase in mosquitoes has created the right environment for an especially extreme spider mating season.
If the shocking images from Aitoliko Lagoon aren’t enough to convince you of these spiders’ strange power, stretch spiders walk on water, and do so faster than they do on land. According to experts, the cobwebs will degrade and the lagoon will return to normal when the mating season slows down.
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