Ballooning

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What Wikipedia says

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 threads to catch the wind, causing them to become airborne at the mercy of air currents and electric fields.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Ballooning (spider)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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