Web-Wrapped Trees
巴基斯坦蛛網樹
Trees shrouded in ghostly cocoons line the edges of a submerged farm field in the Pakistani village of Sindh, where massive floods drove millions of spiders and possibly other insects into the trees to spin their webs.
巴基斯坦信德省的一個村落,一片被洪水淹沒的農田邊的樹上出現壯觀的蜘蛛網,好似一個巨大的繭。為了躲避可怕的洪水,數百萬只蜘蛛—可能還有其他昆蟲—爬到樹上結網。
Beginning last July, unprecedented monsoons dropped nearly ten years' worth of rainfall on Pakistan in one week, swelling the country's rivers. The water was slow to recede, creating vast pools of stagnant water across the countryside.
2010年7月,巴基斯坦普降大雨,短短一周內的降雨量便幾乎等同于與近10年的降雨量,導致很多河流暴漲。隨著洪水緩慢退卻,巴基斯坦農村地區出現巨大的水坑。