Unless you are a hippie growing organic, vegetarian, free-range chickens in Oregon, you probably recognize that nature is out to kill you. But nothing is out to kill you like nature in Australia.

But Aussies can find a positive in anything and baby spiders that build streamers of silk which they use to surf the winds as high as 3 kilometers off the ground and then cover buildings and fields get called “Angel Hair.”


A home surrounded by spiderwebs as floodwaters rise around Wagga Wagga in 2012. Photo: Reuters