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PLoS Biol June 2018 PMID 29902191

An observational study of ballooning in large spiders: Nanoscale multifibers enable large spiders' soaring flight.

Moonsung Cho, Peter Neubauer, Christoph Fahrenson, Ingo Rechenberg

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The overall tone reflects fascination and respect for the research, with posts citing specific features like nanoscale fibers and wind assessment behaviors, indicating both curiosity and engagement, such as mentions of how spiders use silk and turbulence for flight, emphasizing the significance of the physical properties and environmental factors involved.

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  • The study investigates how large spiders (heavier than 5 mg) use ballooning to disperse by observing their behavior in nature and conducting wind tunnel experiments to identify the physical properties of the fibers they produce, which are nanoscale in size and can support flight in light breezes.
  • Researchers found that spiders actively assess wind conditions with their front leg and tend to balloon when wind speeds are low (less than 3 m/s), using ascending air currents generated by turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer, especially hairpin vortices.
  • The physical properties of the ballooning fibers, such as their length (around 3 meters) and nanoscale diameter (121-323 nm), explain how large spiders can fly in relatively weak updrafts and support the idea that turbulence and specific wind regimes facilitate their dispersal.]
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リンク先には書いてあるけど、この動画は今回の研究ではなくて2018年の別の研究のもの： https://t.co/2HOnsUoNBH あと流体力学用語としての「揚力」は「重力と逆向きの力」ではない点にも注意（おそらく日常用語としてはそうなのかもしれないが） https://t.co/JTx2RQ7uL1

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I only learnt about ballooning behaviour in spiders last year. Thanks to my colleague Moonsung Cho (soon starting a faculty position in SKorea), who delves deeper into aerodynamics of spider flight - https://t.co/CTrpKlTynU , https://t.co/uf9VpmNBLn and https://t.co/Sbxw6jfL9A https://t.co/QrfJeMQk2R

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@rolandixor @tea_francis Many spiders will disperse by ballooning at some stages of their lives, where they extrude a length of silk & are lifted into the air by light winds & electrostatic charge. For the larger spiders, this is only possible when they are juveniles. More info at https://t.co/nZNujJR6Tk

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RT @dynamicsoar: @japanfossil @FISH18324532 風まかせという意味では似ていますが、気球と違い浮力ではなくて抗力（空気抵抗）による飛行（離陸）なので、風がそこそこ吹いてないといけないようです（静電気説とかもあるけど）。実際、離陸の直前に脚…

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RT @dynamicsoar: @japanfossil @FISH18324532 風まかせという意味では似ていますが、気球と違い浮力ではなくて抗力（空気抵抗）による飛行（離陸）なので、風がそこそこ吹いてないといけないようです（静電気説とかもあるけど）。実際、離陸の直前に脚…

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RT @dynamicsoar: @japanfossil @FISH18324532 風まかせという意味では似ていますが、気球と違い浮力ではなくて抗力（空気抵抗）による飛行（離陸）なので、風がそこそこ吹いてないといけないようです（静電気説とかもあるけど）。実際、離陸の直前に脚…

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@japanfossil @FISH18324532 風まかせという意味では似ていますが、気球と違い浮力ではなくて抗力（空気抵抗）による飛行（離陸）なので、風がそこそこ吹いてないといけないようです（静電気説とかもあるけど）。実際、離陸の直前に脚を上げて風を計測するような仕草を見せます https://t.co/2HOnsUoNBH のサプリ動画をぜひどうぞ

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RT @dynamicsoar: リンク先には書いてあるけど、この動画は今回の研究ではなくて2018年の別の研究のもの： https://t.co/2HOnsUoNBH あと流体力学用語としての「揚力」は「重力と逆向きの力」ではない点にも注意（おそらく日常用語としてはそうなの…

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RT @dynamicsoar: リンク先には書いてあるけど、この動画は今回の研究ではなくて2018年の別の研究のもの： https://t.co/2HOnsUoNBH あと流体力学用語としての「揚力」は「重力と逆向きの力」ではない点にも注意（おそらく日常用語としてはそうなの…

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リンク先には書いてあるけど、この動画は今回の研究ではなくて2018年の別の研究のもの： https://t.co/2HOnsUoNBH あと流体力学用語としての「揚力」は「重力と逆向きの力」ではない点にも注意（おそらく日常用語としてはそうなのかもしれないが） https://t.co/JTx2RQ7uL1

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уехали очень далеко и надеетесь, что за тридевять земель вас не достанут? пауки умеют летать на, пользуясь паутиной как парапланом. но далеко ли они так улетят? могут и океан перелететь ОКЕАН https://t.co/irSJ9Ixdpu https://t.co/jc7rfUtVPe

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I only learnt about ballooning behaviour in spiders last year. Thanks to my colleague Moonsung Cho (soon starting a faculty position in SKorea), who delves deeper into aerodynamics of spider flight - https://t.co/CTrpKlTynU , https://t.co/uf9VpmNBLn and https://t.co/Sbxw6jfL9A https://t.co/QrfJeMQk2R

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@rolandixor @tea_francis Many spiders will disperse by ballooning at some stages of their lives, where they extrude a length of silk & are lifted into the air by light winds & electrostatic charge. For the larger spiders, this is only possible when they are juveniles. More info at https://t.co/nZNujJR6Tk

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あまり読み込めていないが、メモ代わりに。 バルーニングに適した気象条件を探るため、あえて体重5 mg以上のクモという制限をかけて観察および考察を行った論文(Choほか 2018)。恥ずかしながら"rafting"方式なるバルーニングの方法は初めて知った。 https://t.co/qnDN4LuvAj

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@researchat_fm ついうっかり文献を探しに行ってしまったんですが、新し目の https://t.co/2HOnsUofM9 が、行動観察・風洞実験に加えて既存の議論をちゃんと色々考慮してそうで、面白そうでした。まさかシルクの直径が1μmないとは… ほぼ同時期に出た https://t.co/8AsMTQovFF は静電気にもっとフォーカスした感じ。

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It might be that they are electrostatically charged after all, so the fibres repel each other. PLoS Biology DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2004405 ...

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