[Torg] [NNWS] Orrorsh Expands into Texas

[Jasyn Jones]

And Basjas is leading the invasion:

> WILLS POINT, Tex., Aug. 29 — Most spiders are solitary creatures.  
> So the discovery of a vast web crawling with millions of spiders  
> that is spreading across several acres of a North Texas park is  
> causing a stir among scientists, and park visitors.
>
> Sheets of web have encased several mature oak trees and are thick  
> enough in places to block out the sun along a nature trail at Lake  
> Tawakoni State Park, near this town about 50 miles east of Dallas.
>
> The gossamer strands, slowly overtaking a lakefront peninsula, emit  
> a fetid odor, perhaps from the dead insects entwined in the silk.  
> The web whines with the sound of countless mosquitoes and flies  
> trapped in its folds.

Mosquitos and flies? You wish.

> The web may be a combined effort of social cobweb spiders. But  
> their large communal webs generally take years to build, experts  
> say, and this web was formed in just a few months.
>
> Or it could be a striking example of what is known as ballooning,  
> in which lightweight spiders throw out silk filaments to ride the  
> air currents. Five years ago, in just that way, a mass dispersal of  
> millions of tiny spiders covered 60 acres of clover field in  
> British Columbia with thick webbing.

Say that again with me: millions of Basjas-spawned spiders. Millions.

> “You’d have to get a lot of spiders together and feed them a whole  
> lot of food to make a web that big,” [a biologist] said.

Has anyone checked into the sudden drop in the local dog/cat  
population, or the spate of disappearing vagrants?

> When [a park worker] drives the power mower through the area,  
> webbing wraps across his bare face, causing him to slap at spiders,  
> real or imagined, crawling on his skin.
>
> The spiders are “spreading out for sure,” [the worker] said,  
> pointing out cedars that appeared to have a dusting of snow.  
> “They’re going to take over this whole point.”

Just wait until the giant spiders, and spider-human halfbreeds emerge.

This is so obviously Orrorsh, that the following quote is overkill:

> Allen Dean, a spider expert at Texas A&M University, has seen a lot  
> of webs, but even he described this one as “rather spooky, kind of  
> like Halloween.”

Or is it? Is it too obviously Orrorsh? What if it's a scam to make it  
look like Orrorsh is invading?

Suppose 3327 bribed an Akite scientist into launching a complicated  
plot to make it seem like Orrorsh is invading (complete with  
biological weapons, that is genetically engineered colony spiders,  
ala Arachnophobia, and specially designed spider half-breeds), all in  
an attempt to distract from a move on the Texas oil fields? Can a  
confrontation between Nippon and Mobius (lodged in Houston, IIRC) be  
far off?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/31/us/31spider.html? 
ex=1346212800&en=2e6183a24921db2d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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