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...
16 KB (1,762 words) - 08:43, 7 April 2024
Ballooning may refer to: Hot air ballooning Balloon (aeronautics) Ballooning (spider) Ballooning degeneration, a disease Memory ballooning Balloon (disambiguation)...
267 bytes (50 words) - 13:12, 28 October 2023
Julien (2016). "Phenological and meteorological determinants of spider ballooning in an agricultural landscape" (PDF). Comptes Rendus Biologies. 339...
16 KB (1,424 words) - 15:27, 10 January 2024
kiting of spiders; biologists continue to use the misleading term, "ballooning". Bug-hunter Darrell Ubick correctly recognized that ballooning spiders actually...
115 KB (11,133 words) - 14:03, 15 March 2024
Michigan on February 7, 1999. Ballooning (spider) Wikisource has original text related to this article: A Noiseless Patient Spider "Whispers of Heavenly Death...
7 KB (887 words) - 22:05, 12 August 2023
Trichonephila clavata (redirect from Joro spider)
suggests it is primarily driven by natural dispersal mechanisms, such as ballooning, though human-mediated transport cannot be discounted. In 2019, this species...
11 KB (1,051 words) - 16:34, 21 May 2024
poet Walt Whitman describes a ballooning spider in his 1868 poem, A Noiseless Patient Spider. In graphic novels, spiders are often adapted by superheroes...
79 KB (8,384 words) - 11:05, 26 May 2024
recluse spiders (Loxosceles (/lɒkˈsɒsɪliːz/), also known as brown spiders, fiddle-backs, violin spiders, and reapers, is a genus of spiders that was...
28 KB (2,518 words) - 15:00, 11 December 2023
Kite applications (section Spiders)
(so-called ballooning spiders) have been found in nets raised to upper air for collecting; the method is noted carefully in Spider Ballooning: Development...
38 KB (4,039 words) - 18:22, 19 March 2024
Larinioides sclopetarius (redirect from Bridge spider)
commonly called bridge-spider or gray cross-spider, is a relatively large orb-weaver spider with Holarctic distribution. These spiders originated in Europe...
25 KB (3,072 words) - 00:23, 30 April 2024