Hundreds of “carnivorous” spiders invade teenage Australia’s bedroom

A video clip of the spread of a group of spiders in the room of a little girl in Australia has achieved a wide spread on social networking sites in a state of terror and awe.

Australia-based Peta Rogers tweeted on January 27: “A friend of mine in Sydney just entered her daughter’s room and found it.”

Rogers, who requested anonymity on social media, sent photos and a video of her friend’s daughter’s bedroom, who told her mother, “Mom, we have a bunch of spiders there,” according to the Australian Broadcasting Company.

When Rogers’ girlfriend went to check it, she found a few spiders in the corner of the room. “It’s not so bad,” she says in the video. “Maybe there are 50 or 60 of them.” Then I pointed the camera at another angle, revealing at least twice as many spiders on the walls and ceiling.

And when she photographed spiders at home, she speculated that they belonged to the Sparassidae family, and are common in Australia and other warm climates.

Australian Nine News reported on Monday, February 1 that during summer in Australia, these spiders are increasing in numbers, and it is not unusual for spiders to find their way into people’s homes.

In fact, many Sydney residents reported a spider infestation that week, most likely due to the weather, according to ABC. The drop in pressure after several days of high temperatures led to rain and humidity; Hunting spiders often seek shelter in human homes when the heat and humidity are extremely intense, because homes provide plenty of safe nooks and crannies where spiders can hide – and where females can lay their eggs, said Robert Raven, head of terrestrial biodiversity in Australia.

“Low pressure is one of the factors that lead to the exit of the egg sac,” Raven told ABC. The warm, moist air is ideal for new spiders, and a single egg sac can contain hundreds of hunting spiders, which could lead to a mass infestation like the one in the video.

Unfortunately, these dense groups of small spiders do not last long, because the spiders are “very carnivores” and quickly start devouring each other within a day or two, said aquatic biologist Lizzie Lowe, a postdoctoral researcher in the Behavioral Ecology group. At Australian Macquarie University.

Source: Live Science