Sonoma Mountain Ecology Notes

Celebrating and Caring for the Land

Ballooning

A new generation of spiderlings make their way to a high point where they release long strands of “gossamer threads” which are taken by the wind and carry the young to new territory. While the journey literally takes them where the wind blows, this strategy allows spiders to disperse far and wide.

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