What is the function of ‘pre-dispersal’ behavior in juvenile social spiders (Stegodyphus dumicola: Eresidae)?

Sociality level correlates with dispersal ability in spiders

(2012) Guadalupe Corcobado et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Ballooning propensity of canopy and understorey spiders in a mature temperate hardwood forest

(2011) MAXIM LARRIVÉE et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Limited male dispersal in a social spider with extreme inbreeding

(2009) YAEL LUBIN et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Microbial modification of host long-distance dispersal capacity

(2009) Sara L Goodacre et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Inbreeding depresses short and long distance dispersal in three congeneric spiders

(2009) D. BONTE   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Repeatability of dispersal behaviour in a common dwarf spider: evidence for different mechanisms behind short- and long-distance dispersal

(2008) DRIES BONTE et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY