When Joro hatchlings emerge in spring, they ride the winds using their silk as a balloon, just like in the animated movie "Charlotte's Web." Most web spiders do some form of ballooning ...

if anyone who has seen or read Charlotte’s Web, how Charlotte’s babies depart and go to new areas.” The spiders who are carried off by these wind currents, which are usually female ...

Based on E.B. White's 1952 book, Charlotte's Web is the sweet fable of a feisty little pig who's befriended by a plucky girl and adopted by a lovable, maternal spider. Wait a second. Lovable spider?

Scientists knew that the tiny ray spider can fling its web to snag prey out of the air rather than waiting for insects to fly into the silky strands. But Han deduced the spider launches its web in ...