The pedestrian zone on the banks of the “Parco della Pace” at Lake Maggiore is flooded due to flooding, on Thursday, October 24, 2019 in Locarno, Switzerland. (Photo by Samuel Golay/Ti-Press/Keystoen)

An unexpected side-effect of the flooding in parts of Pakistan has been that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters. Because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water has taken so long to recede, many trees have become cocooned in spiders’ webs.

A girl carries her sibling as she walks through stranded flood water, following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Nowshera, Pakistan on September 4, 2022. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)

A flood-affected couple sits along a flooded roadside under a picture of Jayalalithaa Jayaram, chief minister of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, in Chennai, India, December 6, 2015. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)

A man wades through flood waters carrying his grand daughter on his back following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Charsadda, Pakistan on August 28, 2022. (Photo by Fayaz AzizAziz/Reuters)

Food affected villagers cross flood waters through a bamboo bridge in the flood affected Morigaon district of Assam state, India, 05 July 2016. Continuous rain since last couple of days inundated six districts of Assam effecting more than 100 thousand people in the second wave of floods in Assam state. (Photo by EPA/Stringer)

Brazilian actress Julia Stockler (L) and Brazilian actress Carol Duarte kiss while posing with Brazilian film director Karim Ainouz during a photocall for the film “A Vida Invisivel de Euridice Gusmao (The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao)” at the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 20, 2019. (Photo by Stephane Mahe/Reuters)

Bella Hadid arrives at the amfAR Gala Cannes 2017 at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc on May 25, 2017 in Cap d'Antibes, France. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Variety/Rex Features/Shutterstock)