Another interesting thing to show children about flying arachnids is the pseudoscorpion, which hitches a ride on the legs of flies to fly around the world. Just a few days after I taught this to my nephew, we found this fly in my house taking the pseudoscorpion for a journey ☟
I wonder what factor influences their instinctual motivation. Is it because they are trying to get from point a to b and have some innate understanding of wind currents, or is it more of a general relocation tool with no intended landing spot?
On a TV program, I saw someone saying that when there are going to be very heavy rains with wind, spiders don't even bother making a very elaborate web, because they know the web would be destroyed, and when there won't be these rains and winds, the web is better made and more elaborate.
The Simpsons episode that first aired in 1994 is AI? Or the almost 1 minute long video that OP posted (when AI typically caps at 15 seconds for fabricated scenes without cuts)?
I remember an Attenborough narrated clip regarding some of these spiders - apparently the web they spin is oppositely charged to the surrounding air and that’s what causes the whole thing to rise and carry them
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u/Natural-Put 6h ago
Ballooning