Those mysterious "towers" in the Amazon, it turns out, built spiders

Half scientists tried to find out who created the strange struktury



After six months and nine days of waiting, we finally have an explanation of one of the most intriguing mysteries of 2013. We found out who is the architect of the beautiful towers of the complex web in the Amazonian forests.



A group of researchers under the leadership of entomologist Phil Torres opened the case - it is a spider. They close a few months watching the 40 structures near the Tambopata Research Center in the Peruvian Amazon. Half of the towers was built in the trees called cecropia, many were on the bamboo, and some - on the leaves.





Scientists have noticed as of three separate towers, crawling spiders and carried away. Towers, in fact, are complex egg sacs, and lives in a tower, only one young spider. Spiders are not yet identified.

via factroom.ru

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