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Ballooning Spider

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A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Ballooning Spider'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/ballooning-spider.html. 1828.
 
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