Invasion of the ballooning money spiders

Key Facts

"A long line of silk is dragged out of their body and they're so light that the silk acts like a balloon and lifts them up into the air and this allows them to disperse around.
"When you have these kind of mass events it means it's linked to a very large local population and the meteorological conditions are just right for them to make a move.
Mr Nolan stressed there was nothing for people to be concerned about "It would regularly happen that you're walking along and you might notice a little black spider has landed on you and, because there's only one of them, you don't even think about it.
"What you have in this case is thousands of money spiders and no-one particularly wants hundreds landing on you, but you have to remember those cars have been sitting there all night and all morning, so the spiders have had hours and hours to gather on them.