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Arachnophobe's nightmare: 'Floating' spiders fill sky in Brazil


Skin-crawling footage shows a sky filled with spiders in Minas Gerais, south eastern Brazil, as the eight-legged creatures weaved a giant ceiling-shaped web.

Video of the phenomenon pans across the sky, which appears to be covered in black dots. However, the dark objects are spiders moving about in the giant canopy-like web.

João Pedro Martinelli Fonseca filmed the video at his grandparents’ farm in Espírito Santo do Dourado, about 250km north-east of São Paulo, the Guardian reported.

He told local newspapers he was “stunned and scared,” the outlet reported.

Spiders fill the sky: Spiders are suspended in giant webs in Minas Gerais, south eastern Brazil.
Spiders are suspended in giant webs in Minas Gerais, south eastern Brazil. Source: Facebook/Cecilia Juninho Fonseca

While the spiders appear to be floating, they are actually sitting on a giant web.

The spiders are the rare “social” spider, parawixia bistriata, which is known to build community webs in a ceiling shape, Stuff NZ reported.

The phenomenon is not uncommon during periods of hot and humid weather, the outlet reported.