Officials
with Chicago skyscrapers said the Halloween season has brought on
real-life creepy-crawlers in the form of spiders on their highest
floors. Mead Elliott, broadcast facilities manager for the John Hancock
Center, said the fall season is a “spider fest” at the top of the
building. “They are crawling everywhere, they are coming down on their
strings everywhere, there are a lot of dead carcasses around – it’s like
a haunted house,” he said. “It’s really weird seeing so many. You
scratch your head, literally and figuratively.” Gary Michon, general
manager of U.S. Equities Asset Management, the managing agent for the
Willis Tower, said running the building’s window washing system every
day helps control the spider problem at high altitudes. Petra Sierwald,
associate curator of insects at Chicago’s Field Museum, said most
spiders reach the high altitudes by letting out a small amount of silk
and riding on air currents to the tops of the skyscrapers.
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