Thousands of spiders blanket San Diego County after escaping fire

Thousands of normally solitary wolf spiders have blanketed various areas in San Diego county after fleeing fires.

"What we've seen here is a type of wolf spider," Owen Seeman, an arachnid expert at Brandman university, told Reuters. "They are trying to hide away (from the fire)."

The Bohart Museum's entomology collections manager Graham Milledge told Reuters that there's even a term for the phenomenon, "ballooning," and that it is typical behavior for spiders forced to escape fire.

Thankfully for local residents, the occupying arachnids are not likely to set up permanent residence. Weather reports say rain is coming on their way meaning the wolf spiders will also be returning to their natural underground habitats.

And it turns out the spiders are actually doing quite a bit of good while setting up shop above ground.

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