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2. Ballooning (spider) - Wikipedia

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   Ballooning is a behavior in which spiders and some other invertebrates use airborne dispersal to move between locations. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] A spider (usually limited to individuals of a small species), or spiderling after hatching, [ 6 ] will climb as high as it can, stand on raised legs with its abdomen pointed upward ("tiptoeing"), [ 7 ] and then ...

3. Spider behavior - Wikipedia

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   Ballooning is a term used for the mechanical kiting spiders use to disperse through the air. A spider or spiderling after hatching will climb as high as it can. The spider then stands on raised legs with its abdomen pointed upwards.

4. Erigone atra - Wikipedia

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   Spider tip-toe and ballooning behavior. Ballooning is the behavioral trait where aeronautical insects shoot web threads into the air and causes them to become airborne. In E. atra, ballooning is a form of aerial dispersal in which the spiders use thin threads of spider silk, often called gossamers, to catch electric field currents and air currents.

5. Scientists make shocking discovery dropping spiders from trees

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   "Ballooning" spiders have been known to "rain" down on certain areas using their silk to give off the illusion that they're flying downward. However, scientists are shocked by a new study of rain ...

6. Giant, flying Joro spiders make creepy arrival in ... - AOL

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   Joro spiders can create large webs that can be up to 10 feet wide. A Nephila clavata, a type of orb weaver spider native to Japan where it is called joro-gumo or joro spider, waits in its web for ...

7. Spiders Can Fly Through the Air for Miles Using Electricity ...

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8. Linyphiidae - Wikipedia

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   Linyphiidae, spiders commonly known as sheet weavers (from the shape of their webs), or money spiders (in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Portugal) is a family of very small spiders comprising 4706 described species in 620 genera worldwide. [2] This makes Linyphiidae the second largest family of spiders after the ...

9. Large, flying, invasive Joro spiders are on their way to NJ ...

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   The Joro spider is originally found in east Asia and is thought to have arrived in the United States in 2010. ... The first is called ballooning where they put out a strand of silk that could ...