FACTS

1. Studies have shown that you're never more than ten feet away from a spider, and one estimate puts you as close as three feet.
2. To be "spider-free" you'd have to go into space in a fumigated capsule.
3. Unlike insects, spiders cannot fly--but they can balloon! Young spider lings pull out silk until the breeze can lift them into the sky. Most don't travel high or far, but some have been seen at altitudes of 10,000 feet and on ships more than 200 miles from land. Most ballooners are very small spider lings, but adult spiders have been captured by […]

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