Here’s how spiders that go overboard use light to find land
Spiders flung off a kayak head to areas that don’t reflect polarized light, experiments suggest
![A dark-colored, very long-legged spider sits on a green leaf.](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/121323_mr_spider-navigation_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
The elongate stilt spider, like the one spotted here on a leaf in Niagara Falls State Park, finds land by detecting watery reflections, new experiments suggest.
Cody Hough (CC BY-SA 3.0)