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How Spiders Catch the Air for Their Flight

Bacteria or sperm cells can swim using a hair-like structure. Other organisms use similar structures to fly, like dandelion and thistle seeds with their parachute hairs. But this mode of flying is not limited to plant seeds. One weird aviator is the spider. Using their... click to read more

Moonsung Cho | PhD Student at Institute of Biotechnology, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

ballooning

flying spider

spider silk

soaring

aerial dispersal

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Feb 25, 2019

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