ballooning spider

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ballooning spider - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Ballooning spider \Bal*loon"ing spi"der\ (Zool.)
     A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many
     kinds (esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by
     ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon
     them carries the spider aloft.
     [1913 Webster]