As flood waters raced past the town of Wagga Wagga, in New
South Wales, the spiders were forced to clamber up trees and bushes, spinning
their webs as they climbed.
The result was this amazing panorama - glistening sheets of
web covering just about everything in sight.
Branches were cocooned in the sticky webs, while tall
grasses appeared to be enrobed in silk.
The scenes are reminiscent of the coat of spiders' webs
that were spun in Pakistan after last year's floods turning trees into what
appeared like giant sticks of candy floss.
Residents of Wagga Wagga, returning to their evacuated
homes as flood waters raced towards them after torrential rain turned rivers
into raging torrents, were astonished to find the fields surrounding their
houses transformed from green to white.
But while the town's residents are breathing a sigh of
relief that they have escaped the threatening dangers of the floods, fears were
growing today for the safety of two teenage men who have gone missing in a
flood-affected part of Queensland.
Luke Andus and Solomon Love, 19, set out from the town of
Normanton at the weekend to travel 180 miles to the west - but have not
arrived.
"Police and family hold concerns for their welfare with
some roads in the area impassable due to local flooding," said a police
spokesman.
Dozens of freight trucks and hundreds of motorists remain
stranded by the flood waters after the Bruce Highway was cut off in three
places south of the town of Gympie.
