There were so many spiders at Baltimore Wastewater Treatment Plant that they'd built a web network FOUR ACRES long… pic.twitter.com/PgCT9drpP3 — muiz (@muiz) November 2, 2014

Yes, people actually work in this place!

Arachnophobes should not apply for a job at Baltimore Wastewater Treatment Plant – where part of the building is blanketed by a four-acre spider web.

Experts estimate there are more than 107million eight-legged friends living there.

The entomologists sent out to the scene branded it ‘astonishing’.


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A report reads: ‘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.

Scared of spiders? Look away now! The 4-acre spider web full of more than 107 MILLION insects http://t.co/tNbaETOTE9 pic.twitter.com/d5taxF5o5U — тσпч ɔ'εʟıα (@Tony_DElia) November 4, 2014

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



‘In places where the plant workers had swept aside the webbing to access equipment, the silk lay piled on the floor in rope-like clumps as thick as a fire hose.’

It continues: ‘In some areas of the plant over 95 per cent of space was filled with spider web. The webbing was so dense that it pulled 8-foot long fluorescent light fixtures out of place.’

BURN IT TO THE GROUND.

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