{"id":23597,"date":"2013-02-14T08:30:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T13:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=23597"},"modified":"2013-02-14T08:32:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T13:32:10","slug":"terrifying-footage-shows-spiders-raining-down-over-brazil-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2013\/02\/terrifying-footage-shows-spiders-raining-down-over-brazil-why.html","title":{"rendered":"Terrifying Footage Shows Spiders \u2018Raining\u2019 Down Over Brazil \u2014 Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hundreds (maybe thousands) of spiders raining down from the sky might be taken by some as a terrifying sign for the end of times or at least a reenactment of the final scenes from \u201cCharlotte\u2019s Web\u201d where her brood hatches and all but three scamper away from Wilber. But the real-life occurrence of such a phenomenon in Brazil is actually a natural event.<\/p>\n

According to the video description \u2014 yes, nightmarish footage was captured showing such a scene \u2014 the spiders congregated between electrical poles in Santo Antonio de Plantina.<\/p>\n

Even still, the video footage is unsettling. Check it out:<\/p>\n

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Wired spoke to University of British Columbia researcher<\/a>, Leticia Aviles, who has knowledge about social spiders and said what is being observed in the video is \u201cnot really surprising.\u201d<\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t make what is going on here any less terrifying though, because Aviles said it is likely these spiders are hunting.<\/p>\n

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Wired reported University of Cincinnati arachnologist\u00a0George Uetz\u00a0saying that the spiders sit on the webs to capture prey.<\/p>\n

So the spiders aren\u2019t technically coming down. The web is fixed, according to Uetz, but because it is so fine, it appears to be invisible. He thinks it is a large colony of\u00a0Parawixia bistriata.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

If it makes you feel any better, Wired reported that the venom of\u00a0P.<\/em>\u00a0bistriata<\/em>is not harmful to humans.<\/p>\n

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Check out more photos of P.<\/em> bistriata<\/em>, including up-close shots and a view of how fine the web is, on\u00a0this Flickr page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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