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Hundreds of spiders turned a power line in Indonesia into a giant web wall

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Spider web on barbed wire, Ryan Hodnett, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Hundreds of spiders decided to hang out on a power line in Indonesia. They wove their webs around the power lines, creating a giant invisible wall where they all stand guard. This scene is an arachnophobe's nightmare.

Seeing this in the daytime would be one thing. Encountering it at night, though, would probably mean getting to know these spiders a little bit too intimately. Walking into a web like this in the dark sounds like one of the worst things ever.

As terrible as the thought of stumbling blindly into this wall of spiders is, there is something very special about seeing nature become interwoven with a man-made structure like this. The spiders look beautiful in a spooky way as they sit in their web against the cloudy sky.…

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