Scientists discover that spiders can use electric currents to fly thousands of kilometers

Sometimes when it's raining or you have to migrate to a new territory, spiders have been seen lifting their silk bags and starting to fly to a new home. If, therefore, nothing else, they decide that they got fed up with their situation and get through the air. But how, if they do not have wings, how can they fly? Are they so light? God hates us so much ? Why ?

Although this ability was already known have many species of spiders, called " hot air balloon " in English (in balloon), scientists from the University from Bristol were able to discover that arthropods manage to fly without the need for wings using electric currents to provide elevation . Not only that, electricity in the air can cause this behavior in spiders without warning.

" When you think of aerial organisms, spiders are not usually the first thing that comes to you in the spirit ," explains Erica Morley and Daniel Robert researchers at the University of Bristol. " However, these wingless arthropods were found up to 4 kilometers in the sky traveling hundreds of kilometers ( Sic) "

] According to the researchers, spiders that have this ability travel using the potential atmospheric gradient ( APG an electrical circuit between the earth and the Ionosphere .It is the layer of the atmosphere that is ionized by solar radiation.

When it rains, especially during the thunderstorms, the APG is charged with electrical energy, which allows it to maintain electrical currents in the atmosphere. The spiders use them to generate electrostatic which allows them to raise and even move with electric currents as if they were air currents. In this way, they can fly without the need of wind, and over hundreds or thousands of kilometers. In some cases, spiders were reported flying from one continent to the other over the oceans .

" We still do not know if electric fields are needed to allow the" hot air balloon "" Morley mentioned. " What we do know is that they are sufficient (Sic) ."

Spiders are covered with sensory devices called trichobotries that move in response to electric fields. Yes, the blanket that makes strangely hairy spiders is what allows them to detect APG, and steal.

This is a great time for humanity to continue its research in this area. interstellar travel. This planet is not ours and every day that the spiders show us.