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...

Ballooning may refer to: Hot air ballooning Balloon (aeronautics) Ballooning (spider) Ballooning degeneration, a disease Memory ballooning Balloon (disambiguation)...

Michigan on February 7, 1999. Ballooning (spider) Wikisource has original text related to this article: A Noiseless Patient Spider "Whispers of Heavenly Death...

poet Walt Whitman describes a ballooning spider in his 1868 poem, A Noiseless Patient Spider. In graphic novels, spiders are often adapted by superheroes...

kiting of spiders; biologists continue to use the misleading term, "ballooning". Bug-hunter Darrell Ubick correctly recognized that ballooning spiders actually...

Julien (2016). "Phenological and meteorological determinants of spider ballooning in an agricultural landscape" (PDF). Comptes Rendus Biologies. 339...

suggests it is primarily driven by natural dispersal mechanisms, such as ballooning, though human-mediated transport cannot be discounted. In 2019, this species...

silk-producing arthropods, mostly small or young spiders, secrete a special light-weight gossamer silk for ballooning, sometimes traveling great distances at high...

(so-called ballooning spiders) have been found in nets raised to upper air for collecting; the method is noted carefully in Spider Ballooning: Development...

Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders and other arachnids such as scorpions and ticks. The word Arachnophobia comes from the Greek words arachne and phobia...