110,000 spiders ‘party’ on the border of Greece and Albania

Nov. 17, 2025

Q: Two species of spiders – never known to live together or in groups – built “world’s largest spider web� in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. A researcher said the estimated are 110,000 spiders are “constantly having a party there,� feeding on huge swarms of midge flies. Where are Greece and Albania?

Circle the area on this map

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Q: The giant 1,140-square-foot spider’s web is in the pitch-black Sulfur Cave, which has an entrance in Greece and extends into Albania. Which country hosts the spiders’ party?

A. Albania

B. Greece

Q: Outside the cave, most “spiders in close vicinity will fight and end up eating each other,� another scientist said. Albania and Greece are on which European peninsula, which has been plagued by ethnic conflicts?

A. Balkan

B. Crimean

C. Iberian

D. Kanin

Q: Which empire once ruled most of the Balkan Peninsula, the Middle East, North Africa, and the shores of the Black and Red Seas?

A. Austria-Hungary

B. British

C. Ottoman

D. Russian

Q: After World War I, what new nation was created on the Balkan Peninsula and Central Europe?

A. Albania

B. Bulgaria

C. Czechoslovakia

D. Yugoslavia

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