According to reports, in Rowlett, Texas, thousands of spiders are building webs that are quite tall, so much so that they are covering trees. As per Mike Merchant, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service entomologist in Rowlett, those traveling along CA Roan Drive will see huge webs that have surrounded trees.

As per reports, these webs expand as high as 40 feet and are occupied by the thousands of spiders that work together to create them in a communal effort.

The phenomenon is not common, but has also not occurred for the first time. It was in 2007 when over 3,300 inquisitive visitors saw a huge spider web in Lake Tawakoni State Park, which is approximately 35 miles from Rowlett.

Reports say that the huge webs on the coasts of Lake Tawakoni have made the international arachnology community discuss about them. It also led to question that whether it is an once-in-a-lifetime incident.

According to Mr. Merchant, during that time, the finding of the web was considered more than frightening; it was a surprise for many arachnologists. As per Mr. Merchant, "That's because spiders typically work alone to construct their webs. So finding spiders working together to build a huge web in what was more of a cooperative or 'communal' scenario was a real surprise for many experts".

The spiders have been recognized as Tetragnatha guatemalensis, which is a species that was earlier known to make communal nests under particular conditions; however, that hardly happened in the US.