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Spiders Were Initially Reported To Study Wind Patterns And Direction Before Ballooning. But Another Recent Study, By Scientists, Now Indicates That Spiders Need To Sense The Earth’s Electric Field To Enable Them Take Off, Via Negative Electric Silk Charge, And Travel, Even In Light Winds, For Long Distances Up To 1,000 Miles Out To Sea.

Spiders Can Fly Through the Air for Miles Using Electricity, Study Finds

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/spiders-fly-air-miles-using-155737718.html

The act is called “ballooning.”