Have you ever brushed past a branch and felt like you had a spider web stuck to your clothes or in your hair? Caretaker Ken Thompson might have had the same feeling as he looked out over Kineton High School's athletic field in October of 1998. The entire field was covered with a massive spider web.
The 11.2 acre area in Warwick, England is slightly larger than 8 football fields. The culprit was the Black Money spider, a common breed in England. Could one spider possibly have created this massive web overnight? Certainly not. Black Money Spiders are generally on the small side, seldom growing over a half inch in length. To spin a web as large as the one at Kineton High School would take quite a few of the critters.
That October, the field in question was swarmed with thousands of black money spiders. Working through the night, these animals spun a vast network of interlocking webs, creating what the Guinness Book of World Records officially recognizes as the largest know outdoor spider web. So next time you get grossed out brushing away a cobweb, just be happy you're not standing in the middle of of an 11-acre web surrounded by thousands of spiders!
The 11.2 acre area in Warwick, England is slightly larger than 8 football fields. The culprit was the Black Money spider, a common breed in England. Could one spider possibly have created this massive web overnight? Certainly not. Black Money Spiders are generally on the small side, seldom growing over a half inch in length. To spin a web as large as the one at Kineton High School would take quite a few of the critters.
That October, the field in question was swarmed with thousands of black money spiders. Working through the night, these animals spun a vast network of interlocking webs, creating what the Guinness Book of World Records officially recognizes as the largest know outdoor spider web. So next time you get grossed out brushing away a cobweb, just be happy you're not standing in the middle of of an 11-acre web surrounded by thousands of spiders!
