Millions of Spiders Invade a Tennessee Neighborhood

Residents in Tennessee were shocked after they saw several millions of spiders hanging in a wide spider web in a Tennessee neighborhood. According to the people present at the site, the view looked like a scene from a horror movie.

According to the Washington Post, people saw several millions of spiders in the giant spider web that caused panic among the residents of the Tennessee city.

In an interview with WMC Action News 5, a Tennessee city resident named Ida Morris said the view appeared as if there was a need of a quick clean up. “I've seen about 20 on my porch just in the last day. Clean this area up and spray for these spiders and make it safe. There are kids running around. A spider could bite the kids or anything”, she said.

But as per experts there is nothing to worry about the wide spider web, and said the phenomenon is common. It is called ‘ballooning’ and it happens when tiny spiders try to float off and make their way to other places, they said.

Susan Riechart, an arachnologist and professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville said in a statement that usually in such situation tiny young spiders of most families spread around by releasing out a swath of silk threads that could be even a meter long.

She further said that air currents favor ballooning where several thousands to hundreds of thousands spiders may take off at same time. The spiderlings are too small and have no control over where they will land. Sometime they fall in the same area.