The real reason they should be cancelling fall festivals.

Forget swine flu, it's nephila clavata (무당거미) season. Those three---two females and a male---were hanging out *cough* near the entrance of Chonnam National University last week, as was this one:



Here are a couple photographs I took in Beolgyo-eup, Boseong county a couple of years ago. You'll find one of the pictures on Wikipedia because it's awesome and terrifying because I put it there.




When they reach maturity their bodies are roughly eight feet long and 600 pounds, and they live in colonies of up to 1,000.