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Massive spiderweb blankets Greek beach for spider sex 'party'

  • by Amanda Heroux
  • in Science
  • — Sep 22, 2018
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The webs are filled with Tetragnatha spiders - known as "stretch spiders" for their long bodies.

The spiders in Aitoliko seem spurred into overdrive by an explosion in populations of insects they eat, thousands of little spiders in the western town have spun a sticky white line extending for a few hundred meters along the shoreline.

Giannis Giannakopoulos noticed the "veil of webs" earlier this week and captured the spider creations with his camera.

The web has been built by spiders of the Tetragnatha genus.

"It's as if the spiders are taking advantage of these conditions and are having a kind of a party".

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This is usually a seasonal phenomenon, as warm temperature, high humidity, and plentiful food create the ideal conditions for this species to reproduce in large numbers.

"When these temperatures last long enough, we can see a second, third and fourth generation of the gnats and end up with large amounts of their populations", he said. This year, a sizable increase in the mosquito population is also an important driver for the spiders' prolific web spinning.

"It's the simple prey-predator phenomenon", Pergantis said.

These spiders are not unsafe for humans and will not cause any damage to the area's flora.

But the spiders' romps will be short-lived, according to British media reports which quoted an interview done by Greek website Newsit.gr. And once the temperatures drop, the gnat population will die off and so will the spiders, leaving the people of Aitoliko to reclaim their beaches.

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