Ballooning (spider) - Wikipedia
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.
Gliding Spiders Found Falling From Tropical Trees | Smithsonian
Aug 18, 2015 · More than 90 percent of the drop-tested spiders successfully glided to a tree trunk several feet below. When flatties fell, the arachnids first righted themselves so their bellies faced...
Watch: Spiders glide gracefully to safety | Science | AAAS
Aug 18, 2015 · But a new study published online today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface shows that they might have more than we realized: These arboreal spiders can control their falls, gliding from tree to tree to avoid the dangerous forest floor, just like flying squirrels.
Flying Spiders Found—and They Can Steer in Mid-Air
Aug 18, 2015 · Some tropical spiders can fly without using silk, making virtuoso dives to nearby tree trunks, scientists have discovered. The daredevil arachnids seem to steer themselves through the air with ...
Watch a ‘ballooning' spider take flight | Science | AAAS
Apr 2, 2018 · The spiders did not release their silk balloons at random, the team found. Instead, they raised one or two hairy legs aloft, apparently testing the wind for 5 to 8 seconds. On cold and windy days, the spiders huddled on the side of the platform and most did not launch.
'Base Jumping' Spider Soars from Rainforest Treetops
Aug 18, 2015 · A half-dollar-size spider jumps from the tops of trees to stay away from predators on the rainforest floor, according to a new study.
Spiders can float in the air, and scientists just figured out how …
Jun 15, 2018 · Cho first saw wild ballooning spiders on a walk through Berlin's Lilienthal Park - a memorial to Otto Lilienthal, a German aviation pioneer who died in a gliding accident in 1896. Cho, an...
Biologists discover skydiving spiders in South American forests
Aug 18, 2015 · A group of biologists working in Panama and Peru have discovered a type of nocturnal hunting spider, about two inches across, that is able to steer while falling, much like a wingsuit flyer, in order to return to the tree from which it fell.
These Spiders Glide From Tropical Trees - Smithsonian Magazine
These Spiders Glide From Tropical Trees. New research shows that species from the Selenops genus navigate falls by gliding to the nearest tree trunk.
Arachnid aloft: directed aerial descent in neotropical canopy spiders ...
Sep 6, 2015 · Along with the occurrence of directed aerial descent in ants, jumping bristletails, and other wingless hexapods, this discovery of targeted gliding in selenopid spiders further indicates strong selective pressures against uncontrolled falls …
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