Residents in Australia are being terrorised by thousands of spiders seeking shelter in their homes after heavy rainfall caused one of the worst floods in 50 years.
People living in New South Wales (NSW) have shared images and videos on social media showing clusters of spiders trying to escape the floodwaters by clinging on to fences and doors.
Melanie Williams from Macksville in NSW filmed thousands of spiders crawling up her garage door. She told ABC News: “That was enough to really freak me out, I had never seen anything like it before.
I am an arachnophobe from way back so I hope they’ve gone back to wherever they came from. "I occasionally see spiders around the place but never anything like that, it was just insane.” Matt Lovenfosse
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