Storm' of spider silk — not webs — drapes Australian city

A story that went viral this week about spider webs blanketing an Australian city is not entirely accurate. What the spiders were doing was creating a line of silk, not webs. In fact,  the arachnid at the root of the story, a wolf spider, doesn't even make webs.

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