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electrostatic spider flight
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Hasn’t this been known for some time? Perhaps I’m confusing these spiders with ones that simply form wind sails.
Didn't the baby spiders fly away at the end of Charlottes Web?
Yeah, it was chaos on the set just off-camera.
The most recent article in the post is about 4 years old. I definitely recall learning this a while ago.
If you read any of the article OP provided, you'll see that the common belief that they were simply using the wind was false and they actually use electric currents in the air.