Residents in three California counties on Wednesday found themselves in a sticky situation as spider webs rained down from the sky.
The plethora of webs – which fell on Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito counties – were actually the result of two factors: spider-hatching season and high winds, experts say. Most freshly hatched spiders use a process called ballooning, which involves using their webbings like a paraglider, to go their separate ways, experts say.
Because Wednesday’s winds came in from the east and blew across the mountains, they picked up hundreds of thousands of airborne spiders and deposited them throughout the tri-county area, according to wildlife officials.
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