Silk-spinning spiders in Northland

Hikurangi Swamp 10 am, June 12, 2014—spider silk is starting to cover the grass verge

Hikurangi Swamp 5 pm, June 12, 2014—the silk is now covering the road

Individual silk strands can be seen at the edge of a curtain of web

The silk covers vegetation . . .

The silk covers signage . . .

Billowing silk sails.

The work of billions of wolf spiders

The silk covers everything.

Adults and juveniles, escaping the flood waters

Wolf spiders can let out metres of silk in order to be picked up by the wind

If there are enough spiders, all the silk strands become overlaid as a sheet

A magical day beside the Hikurangi Swamp.