Spiders Spin Web to Creat New Homes to Escape Flood Waters Across Eastern Australia

Three Australian states had record-high summer rains over the past week, flooding rivers and forcing dams to overflow.

Over 13,000 people were evacuated from their homes, Tuesday, as regions of eastern Australia are submerged in water.

However, humans are not the only sufferers of flooding in Australia. Spiders have reportedly spun webs around trees, plants and bushes to escape flood waters.

Such phenomenon was also observed in Pakistan's Sindh province in 2010, following a devastating flood that occurred in July the same year. Millions of spiders had cocooned trees in Sindh province to escape the rising floodwaters.

Browse the slides to see the amazing scenes.

Creating new homes for these little local creatures is obviously not a problem. They've got endless webs that they could spin anytime they want to build a new resting place.

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