Flights web

In the fall, in late August and early September, flying in the air web. So the little spiders migrate to a hundred, thousand, or even tens of thousands of meters. Where especially a lot of spiders in South America for example, they sometimes soar from the earth such clouds, "all the sky seems to be these days with the web".

It turns out the issues related to the causes of flight web, there is a very long time. Until the nineteenth century, flying on the web there were many different hypotheses, of varying degrees of strangeness. The presence of flying web explained "vypitoy resin of the pines", a secret weapon, explained its pravlenie in the sky as "a special kind of viscous matter, condensed rays of the sun," etc.

It should be noted that different species of spiders are there different types of web (i.e., it differs not only from species of spider, but one can be several types depending on the destination. For example, Argiope argentata five), respectively, with different properties and appearance.

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