A resident of Australia saw unusual elongated objects in the trees next to a neighbor's house.
The light brown "fruits" looked like exotic fruits and also like "alien cocoons" from science fiction films.
Since these trees were not fruit trees and this woman had never seen anything like it, she called the objects ominous.
Then she filmed them and posted them on Facebook, asking for advice on identifying them.
The mystery began to be cleared up when the woman described that a little cobweb could be seen around these fruits. After that, several commentators immediately expressed that most likely these "bags" or "cocoons" are the result of the work of bolas spiders.
These spiders do not weave ordinary spider webs, but hunt using a long spider web with a sticky drop at the end. With this drop, they catch their prey like a fisherman a fish or like a cowboy throws his lasso on a cow.
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These spiders live in America, Africa and Australia and, as it turned out, they can also build such brown elongated capsules. After mating, the female spider envelops the fertilized eggs in cobwebs and hangs them from the trees. When the web hardens, it darkens and a similar cocoon is obtained, each of which contains several hundred eggs.
When small spiders hatch (this usually happens in early spring), they descend to the ground on thin cobwebs like parachutes.
These spiders do not pose a danger to people, however, the discovery of the riddle did not please the woman at all, as she was afraid that spiders would fill her entire area.