In North Memphis, Tennessee, an eerie looking sheet of snow is now covering May Street and Chelsea Avenue, except this is not freshly fallen snow but a somewhat alarming, massive spider web blanket that is now making locals worry.

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However, experts say that this should not be something to be scared about, as this particular spider species' presence is apparently a good sign. According to Steve Reichling from the Memphis Zoo, this massive spider web is a mass dispersal of millions of tiny spiders that dwell in the fields that would often go unnoticed until now.

Reichling says that these spiders are often living in fields and meadows which are estimated to be millions of spiders just going about by their daily activities, unseen by humans. This is now a good sign, indicating that these spiders are living in harmony with nature in that location, as a telltale sign of a healthy ecosystem.

He adds that these spider species are probably sheet web weaver spiders classified under the Linyphiidae family, which also holds more than 4,300 known species around the world. These tiny spiders are known to enshroud areas with messy webs that are close to the surface of the Earth and unlike other spiders that weave in an orb shape and use sticky silk to catch prey, these sheet web weavers use this strategy to build tangled networks of silk threads according to scientists from the University of Kentucky.

Apart from this sheet weaving method, the spiders from the Linyphiidae family are also famous for their ballooning behavior where the arachnids travel thousands of miles to migrate, using a silken parachute that will be caught by winds. Scientists also believe that these ballooning spiders have migrated as far as the Antarctic region.

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