Your bloodcurdling, horrific, spine-tingling news of the day: “Spiders can physically detect electrostatic changes in their surroundings.” They “prepare for flight [emphasis mine] by raising their front legs into the wind, presumably to test how strong it is,” and use Earth’s electric field to launch themselves into the air.
How far? you ask. Oh, you know, only as far as two-and-a-half miles into the troposphere and 1,000 miles out to sea.
So, basically, this is a documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou7WQPN2dbU
