If you suffer from arachnophobia (the fear of spiders), then this cave in Albania should not be on your bucket list of holiday destinations.
Scientists have discovered the world's largest spider web in a remote cave in Albania. They believe that around 100,000 spiders live in it.
The massive web was measured and found to span 106 square metres across the cave.
According to scientists, the colony is made up of around 69,000 domestic house spiders, also known as the barn funnel weaver or Tegenaria domestica, and 42,000 Prinerigone vagans, a species of sheet weaver spider.
This is especially surprising because, according to scientists, these two species usually don't co-exist. Spiders are solitary creatures, so finding such a large colony is unusual in itself. Adding to this, the barn funnel weaver spider is known to be predatory and would usually eat smaller spiders like the sheet weaver spider, making this discovery even more surprising.
Researchers believe that the lack of light and the abundance of other food sources are the only reasons this didn't happen.
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