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RE: A Mountain to Protect - A True Resource Based Economy is Threatened.
4/7/2011 2:38:40 PM
I think this is awesome first of all. On second impression how ingenious! http://www.flickr.com/photos/dfid/5571181942/?reg=1&src=comment

The floods are staying longer than usual or expected even by nature, and hundreds even thousands of spiders have formed colonies in these trees and made themselves a near impermeable habitats to survive the disaster in.

I wonder if these webs now make the inner most parts of the center impervious to moisture, heat and the like? If it does, then is there a great hall or various gathering points witin the "Resource Based Society"? Is this a sign of how to survive coming disasters? Just thinking out loud.

Trees cocooned in spiders webs after flooding in Sindh, Pakistan




An unexpected side-effect of the flooding in parts of Pakistan has been that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters.

Because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water has taken so long to recede, many trees have become cocooned in spiders webs. People in this part of Sindh have never seen this phenomenon before - but they also report that there are now less mosquitoes than they would expect, given the amount of stagnant, standing water that is around.

It is thought that the mosquitoes are getting caught in the webs and may be reducing the risk of malaria, which would be one blessing for the people of Sindh, facing so many other hardships after the floods.

UK aid - in response to the Pakistan floods - is helping millions of survivors return home and rebuild their lives.

Find out more about the UK government's response to the Pakistan floods at www.dfid.gov.uk/pakistan-floods-six-months

Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development

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