No air currents required: Ballooning spiders rely on electric fields to generate lift

Ars Technica
By Jennifer OuelletteApr 4, 2022, 7:39 pm132 pts
Enlarge / Image from a 2018 observational study of ballooning in large spiders depicting a crab spider just as it is about to take off. (credit: Cho, M. et al., 2018/CC BY-SA 4.0) In 1832, Charles Darwin witnessed hundreds of ballooning spiders landing on the HMS Beagle while some 60 miles offshore. Ballooning…

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