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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...
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  • Ballooning may refer to: Hot air ballooning Balloon (aeronautics) Ballooning (spider) Ballooning degeneration, a disease Memory ballooning Balloon (disambiguation)...
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    Julien (2016). "Phenological and meteorological determinants of spider ballooning in an agricultural landscape" (PDF). Comptes Rendus Biologies. 339...
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    kiting of spiders; biologists continue to use the misleading term, "ballooning". Bug-hunter Darrell Ubick correctly recognized that ballooning spiders actually...
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    Michigan on February 7, 1999. Ballooning (spider) Wikisource has original text related to this article: A Noiseless Patient Spider "Whispers of Heavenly Death...
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    suggests it is primarily driven by natural dispersal mechanisms, such as ballooning, though human-mediated transport cannot be discounted. In 2019, this species...
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    poet Walt Whitman describes a ballooning spider in his 1868 poem, A Noiseless Patient Spider. In graphic novels, spiders are often adapted by superheroes...
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    recluse spiders (Loxosceles (/lɒkˈsɒsɪliːz/), also known as brown spiders, fiddle-backs, violin spiders, and reapers, is a genus of spiders that was...
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  • (so-called ballooning spiders) have been found in nets raised to upper air for collecting; the method is noted carefully in Spider Ballooning: Development...
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    commonly called bridge-spider or gray cross-spider, is a relatively large orb-weaver spider with Holarctic distribution. These spiders originated in Europe...
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