Spiders go ballooning on electric fields

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Spiders go ballooning on electric fields

The aerodynamic capabilities of spiders have intrigued scientists for hundreds of years. Charles Darwin himself mused over how hundreds of the creatures managed to alight on the Beagle on a calm day out at sea and later take-off from the ship with great speeds on windless day.

Scientists have attributed the flying behaviour of these wingless arthropods to 'ballooning', where spiders can be carried thousands of miles by releasing trails of silk that propel them up and out on the wind.

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-spider...ields.html#jCp

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Spider silk is very strong.

I've seen spiders skillfully dangling from high distances and also floating across the air on their silk, like elegant parachutes.