They craft and create webs every day, but the spiders in Tauranga, on New Zealand's North Island, probably weren't expecting to go viral on a web of a different kind, the interweb.

SunLive in Tauranga on Sunday broke the story of thousands of spiders quietly engaged in creating a web that spanned part of the Gordon Spratt Reserve in the suburb of Papamoa.

SunLive reader Tracey Maris went down to the reserve on Sunday because she saw something shimmering on the hill, and says she's never seen anything like it.

"The new tsunami evacuation hill was gleaming this afternoon so I went to see what it was.