The crab spider spins out tens of
fine silk fibers for its aerial dispersal
Date: June 14, 2018
Source: PLOS
Summary:
Spiders take flight on the
smallest of breezes by first sensing the wind, and then spinning out dozens of
nanoscale fibers up to seven meters long, according to a study publishing June
14 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Moonsung Cho, Ingo
Rechenberg, Peter Neubauer, and Christoph Fahrenson at the Technische
Universität in Berlin. The study provides an unprecedentedly detailed look at
the "ballooning" behavior that allows certain spiders to travel on
the wind for hundreds of kilometers.
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