I have to imagine they have a huge impact on the ecosystem. When I saw them in Mexico (near Puerto Vallarta), they had blanketed over the entire trail with dens

I have to imagine they have a huge impact on the ecosystem. When I saw them in Mexico (near Puerto Vallarta), they had blanketed over the entire trail with dense webs. It covered virtually all of the open aerial space in the forest. There's so many of them and they're so large, they must be eating a ton of the available food.