Show SPIDERS HAVE OWN AIRSHIPS AIRSHIP air Is filled with them when tho the families separate when the british war balloon was sailing high over lonion the navigators in the ho car found the air filled with spiders tills this phenomenon noi nenon Is explained very simply in early autumn the spider fa families milles separate hundreds of thousands of infantile aalders on a warm sunny morning scale the low hushes bushes cling to tho the ups tips of the leaves and project slender silken threads from the spinnerets erets at the end of their bodies before very long the air near the ground becoming heated ascends and carries up tile the silken threads with it still the little creatures hold on and pour out silk till each has some eight or ten feet of line rising almost perpendicularly into the air above it at last they let go and rise into tile air themselves each at the extremity of its own thread in this way they are carried upward perhaps for many hundreds of feet till at last they meet a cm rent of air moving slowly along and by this they are carried often for many miles while they can always descend at will by the simple expedient of rolling up their supporting threads on a warm dutu autumn mn morning tile the air Is often filled with these baby each 8 sailing alling securely on its own little silken airship when they descend bushea trees and low plants are ao frequently covered with their gossamer threads |