No big deal, it's just raining spiders in Australia

An Australian spider
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Gaaaah:

Millions of baby spiders appeared to be raining from the sky in the Southern Tablelands earlier this month, with one astonished local fearing the region had been "invaded by spiders" and another reporting his home was "covered" in the creatures.Goulburn resident Ian Watson said his house looked like it had been "abandoned and taken over by spiders.""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 meters into the sky." [The Sydney Morning Herald]

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