Hi Tom --
Same thing in Louisville, KY today! President Ed was up in Muncie and
said he had never seen so many. I guess they all got word via the PSE
(Parachute Spider Exchange) that it was lift-off day :)
Aside from the air being thick with spiders, they did provide as handy
thermal detectors.
Tom Nagel wrote:
It was a beautiful early October day at MOSS field, the little
berry patch out northeast of Columbus that our new member Gil Perez
calls "The Tree Farm"
We had clear blue skies, light winds, lgreat thermal lift, a
handful of club members, a few visitors to the field and spiders.
Lots and lots of SPIDERS!
I think these things are called parachute spiders. They sit in
the bushes and tree tops and spin out long lengths of spider silk, and
when a thermal comes through they go sailing off across the sky. Our
planes were coming back with hundreds of strands of spider silk (and
presumably some pretty pissed of spiders) draped across the wings.
Tom H. Nagel
Judicatum Procurator Recuperatio
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