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Title: Spiders fall from the sky in Australia leaving what enthusiasts call 'Angel Hair'
Source:
The Independent via Drudge
URL Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/incomi ... -call-angel-hair-10249514.html
Published: May 15, 2015
Author: Rose Troup Buchanan
Post Date: 2015-05-15 11:33:06 by Tooconservative
Keywords: None
Views: 2379
Comments: 11
In the more ridiculous news of the day, scientists have confirmed that it is possible for the eight-legged creatures to be falling from the sky in southern Australia. Earlier this month astonished locals told The Sydney Morning Herald that their area had been “invaded by spiders”. Ian Watson, who lives in the New South Wales’ town of Goulburn near the east coast, said the invasion of spiders – while beautiful – was also “annoying”. "The whole place was covered in these little black spiderlings and when I looked up at the sun it was like this tunnel of webs going up for a couple of hundred metres into the sky," he told the The SMH. Other residents also reported seeing the spiders on 4 May, with one woman claiming she saw what appeared to be silk thread “floating through the sky”. Her sighting is due to a migration technique commonly associated with spiders, explains naturlist Martyn Robinson from the Australian Museum. ‘Ballooning,’ usually used by baby spiders, sees the arachnoids climb to the top of tall vegetation before releasing a silk balloon and allowing the wind to carry them. Spiders have been recorded travelling up to three kilometres using this method. "They can literally travel for kilometres … which is why every continent has spiders. Even in Antarctica they regularly turn up but just die," he told The SMH. The mass migration of spiders recently means that occasionally you can have entire areas covered in the thin gossamer of spiders, leading to some enthusiasts calling it Angel Hair.
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#1. To: TooConservative (#0)
Australia is HELL.
Well, maybe Purgatory...
Angel hair pasta - which I can no longer eat due to the But in moderation I can eat whole wheat - or tri-color - vegetable pasta - I have no interest in eating spiders, though.
You dream about food in living color, don't you? : ) I was almost expecting an angel hair pasta post. You didn't disappoint. But then, I had a grandfather who was a man who relished his food so I do understand the impulse.
In fairness, Brazil had quite a similar spider outbreak a few years back as the article links demonstrate. We had several articles at LP on it. My craving continuity and consistency in science news is surely the sign of a small mind.
Ha!
Look for Dreamfields Pasta at your local supermarket, Chuck.
I wouldn't dream of interrupting that. I'll sit back and wait for the pictures of your meal. : )
Pictures of big spiders falling out of the sky...VERY Bad Things!
Sorry - the meal is already ettin. It's gone. Not bad though...
I don't know if they've changed their recipe (or label) I said 'What the heck' - and sent away for my part of
#2. To: Vicomte13 (#1)
#3. To: TooConservative (#0)
too high a glycemic index (carbs). Dang diabetes... 
but only in moderation.
#4. To: Chuck_Wagon (#3)
Angel hair pasta
#5. To: Vicomte13 (#1)
Australia is HELL.
#6. To: TooConservative (#4)
...who was a man who relished his food...
Sorry that I didn't get right back to you -
I was finishing making a quesadilla and
putting in the oven. Late lunch - ya know...
#7. To: Chuck_Wagon (#3)
Angel hair pasta - which I can no longer eat due to the too high a glycemic index (carbs). Dang diabetes...
It has 65% lower Glycemic Index than regular pasta.
I have a box of Dreamfields spaghetti that I got at Krogers in my cupboard right now (and a box of macaroni elbows). But their website says it comes in angel hair, linguini, penne rigate, rotini & lasagna too. Plus it's at Walmart, or you can order online, or you can find other grocery stores near you by entering your zipcode.
#8. To: Chuck_Wagon (#6)
Sorry that I didn't get right back to you - I was finishing making a quesadilla and putting in the oven.
#9. To: TooConservative (#5)
#10. To: TooConservative (#8)
I'll sit back and wait for the pictures of your meal. : )
#11. To: Willie Green (#7)
... Dreamfields Pasta ...
(they'd be dumb not to) however they were in some
trouble due to mislabeling their product.
of the class action lawsuit money (either $6.88 or $8.66)
Woo Hoo! So buying the stuff may or may not be a good idea.
I got my check and cashed it. Even if I'm ahead of the game -
It's a major waste of time anyway...
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