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Ballooning, sometimes called kiting, is a process by which spiders, and some other small invertebrates, move through the air by releasing one or more gossamer threads to catch the wind, causing them to become airborne at the mercy of air currents and electric fields. A 2018 study concluded that electric fields provide enough force to lift ...
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Objects protruding these fields, e.g. flowers and trees, can increase the electric field strength to several kilovolts per meter. [19] These near-surface electrostatic forces are detected by organisms such as the bumblebee to navigate to flowers [ 19 ] and the spider to initiate dispersal by ballooning .
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Joro spiders were first spotted in the U.S. 10 years ago, and experts warned at the beginning of the summer that the spiders were moving into the Northeast. Now, it seems at least one has arrived ...
Bolas: Bolas spiders are unusual orb-weaver spiders that do not spin the webs. Instead, they hunt by using a sticky 'capture blob' of silk on the end of a line, known as a ' bolas '. By swinging the bolas at flying male moths or moth flies nearby, the spider may snag its prey rather like a fisherman snagging a fish on a hook.
Many have mistakenly thought this process is the spiders "flying." But in reality, smaller males and baby spider release a strand of silk that will carry them on the wind. This image shows a Joro ...
Four trichobothria on the second leg of the spider Paratropis tuxtlensis. Trichobothria (singular trichobothrium) are elongate setae ("hairs") present in arachnids, various orders of insects, and myriapods that function in the detection of airborne vibrations and currents, and electrical charge. [1]