Even in this day and age, nature can still 
baffle us. Take this sprawling spider web in Texas that
has been woven across several trees and shrubs along a 200-yard stretch of park trail in Lake Tawakoni State Park. Officials at Lake Tawakoni State Park have never seen anything like it and it may be a once in a lifetime event.
But John Jackman, a professor and extension entomologist for Texas A&M University, said he hears reports of similar webs every couple of years -- something to give the stoutest arachnophobic a heart attack. Spider experts say the web may have been constructed by social cobweb spiders, which work together, or could be the result of a mass dispersal in which the arachnids spin webs to spread out from one another.
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