07.11.2025 20:23
Scientists have discovered a massive web spanning an area of over 100 square meters in the Sulfur Cave on the Albania-Greece border, woven by more than 111,000 spiders. This finding reveals the 'largest spider web in the world.'
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European researchers have discovered 'the world's largest spider web' in the depths of the Sulfur Cave located on the Albania-Greece border. The researchers noted that the spider web spreads over an area exceeding 100 square meters on the wall of a narrow, low-ceilinged passage near the entrance of the cave.
OVER 111 THOUSAND SPIDERS FROM TWO SPECIES FORM A HUGE WEB
Researchers who encountered a spider colony consisting of approximately 69 thousand Agelenidae and over 42 thousand Linyphiidae species observed that more than 111 thousand spiders from these two species had woven a massive web.
The researchers determined that the populations of the two spider species found in the Sulfur Cave on the Albania-Greece border are genetically different from other populations. They reported that the colony web formation in these species has been documented for the first time, and noted that the Agelenidae species in this cave particularly lays larger egg clusters at the beginning of summer.
Istvan Urak, a lecturer at the Biology Department of Transylvania Sapientia Hungarian University based in Romania and one of the lead authors of the research, stated in an interview with the website Live Science that this finding is the first evidence of the two spider species forming a colony together and "likely reveals the largest spider web in the world."
UNIQUE EXAMPLE IN SULFUR CAVE
Urak shared that the spider colony in the Sulfur Cave is one of the largest colonies documented to date. He noted that the Agelenidae and Linyphiidae species are commonly found near human settlements, and emphasized that the colony is "a unique example of two species living together in such large numbers within the same web structure."
The results of the research were published in the journal Subterranean Biology.
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