Ballooning spiders

First of all, it’s important to understand that ‘ballooning’ is a flying process adopted by certain species of spiders, such as Erigone atra, and Cyclosa turbinata, but people usually call them ‘ballooning spiders’. So, in other words, ‘ballooning spider’ is a term that describes a process by which several species of spiders can fly, so it is not a species per se.

That being said, by this process, spiders can move through the air forming one or more gossamer threads to catch the wind – just like Spiderman.