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)...

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

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

commonly called bridge-spider or gray cross-spider, is a relatively large orb-weaver spider with Holarctic distribution. These spiders originated in Europe...

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

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

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

recluse spiders (Loxosceles (/lɒkˈsɒsɪliːz/), also known as brown spiders, fiddle-backs, violin spiders, and reapers, is a genus of spiders that was...

drifting through the air via a technique termed "ballooning". Within the agriculture industry, money spiders are regarded as biological control agents against...