Spiders create four-acre web at waste treatment plant

For most people, the appearance of a spider web when they were doing a little bit of cleaning would mean taking a duster or the hoover and simply getting rid of it, but at one waste treatment facility in the US, things have got way more serious with regards to its web situation. 

In what must be an arachnophobe's very worst nightmare, the Baltimore plant has seen so many of the eight-legged terrors move in that it is now home to a web so large that it covers a whole four acres. 

Baltimore Wastewater Treatment Plant's entire ceiling is covered corner to corner with spider webs. It seems like that would take a lot of work, right? Well not for the estimated 107 million of the creepy crawlies that apparently live there. 

A report into the web compiled by entomologists sent out to examine it said: "We were unprepared for the sheer scale of the spider population and the extraordinary masses of both three dimensional and sheet-like webbing that blanketed much of the facility’s cavernous interior.

"Far greater in magnitude than any previously recorded aggregation of orb-weavers, the visual impact of the spectacle was was nothing less than astonishing."

It also added that in places where workers had to sweep away sections of web to complete jobs (yes, people actually work there), the discarded webs lay in clumps like rope as thick as a firehose. 

According to the findings, the web now covers an absolutely astonishing 95 per cent of the ceiling within the facility. Amazingly, it is so dense and heavy in some places that the web has even managed to pull lights from their fittings. 

Earlier this week, it was reported that one arachnophobe's fear of spiders had got so bad that he had undergone surgery to rid him of it. The unnamed man had part of his brain removed, and while he no longer fears the creepy crawlies, he temporarily hated all music.