The whole place was covered in these little black spiderlings and when I looked up at the Sun it was like this tunnel of webs going up for a couple of hundred metres into the sky," Goulburn local Ian Watson told Inga Ting over at the Sydney Morning Herald. He found it beautiful but annoying, he added, because the spiders kept getting caught in his beard.
Watson took to a private community Facebook page to make sure he wasn't the only one being invaded by arachnids. "Anyone else experiencing … millions of spiders falling from the sky right now?" he wrote. "I'm 10 minutes out of town and you can clearly see hundreds of little spiders floating along with their webs and my home is covered in them. Someone call a scientist!"
What he was seeing could be caused by two spider migration techniques, naturalist Martyn Robinson from the Australian Museum told Ting. The first is called ballooning, wherein baby spiders climb to a high point and release their silk, which catches on the breeze to carry them away