Credit: Russell Watkins for TIME

I know the state of world politics is bad, but that headline does not in fact signal that things have finally progressed to a sci-fi level of alarm involving marching armies of super-arachnids. No. In fact these gorgeous/creepy images of the thousands of spiders who crawled into the trees to avoid the flooding in Pakistan have a happy-ish side note: most of the Malaria-carrying mosquitos in the region got bamboozled in the webs. TIME photographer Russell Watkins photographed the scene, and was quoted as saying: “No one had ever witnessed anything like this before.”

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  • Russell Watkins for TIME

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8 replies on “Spiders Invade Pakistan”

  3. No one’s ever seen anything like this before? Did no one ever see KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS, starring William Shatner?

    For shame.

  4. Good thing this missed Spring Break by a couple weeks. Drunken Americans would be unable to resist dares to cannonball into that thing and then post the results on YouTube.

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