Archive image from page 309 of American spiders and their spinning. American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits CUbiodiversity1121211-9742 Year: 1889 ( 310 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. VI. The subject of nesting architecture could hardly be considered com- plete without a glance at the curious habit of nest parasitism, as it may (somewhat loosely) be termed. The facts in my possession are ®. ' not numerous, but are enough to indicate that more, and more interesting o
Archive image from page 309 of American spiders and their spinning. American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits CUbiodiversity1121211-9742 Year: 1889 ( 310 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. VI. The subject of nesting architecture could hardly be considered com- plete without a glance at the curious habit of nest parasitism, as it may (somewhat loosely) be termed. The facts in my possession are ®. ' not numerous, but are enough to indicate that more, and more interesting ones, may await future observers. Saltigrade spiders are very much in the habit of attaching the silken cell in which they live to the nest of Orbweavers, and, indeed, I may say, of other tribes. One may find a little Saltigrade snugly ensconced, as in Fig. 288, on the silken dome of Epeira, with the mouth of the cell opening almost next door to the exit of her host's house. It seems strange, at first thought, that the two would pass to and fro without molesting and destroying one another; but they manage to do this. Again, I have often found underneath a bit of loose bark, or a flat stone, the tubular nest of Epeira strix, surrounded on all sides and even overlaid by the cells of various Saltigrade species, in some of which the mother would be found dwelling with her young. Here, again, the wonder is that the colonists dwelt together in unity. It is not an unusual thing to find the little silken cell of Clubiona and various Drassids spun Fig. 288. Parasitic neat of Sal- Underneath somc portion of curled leaf or leaves, tigrade spider upon nest of which are uscd by the Iiisular or Shamrock spiders for nests. Indeed, these ubiquitous Tubeweavers feel free to attach their cells to any object, in almost any site. Squatter -yvithout the slightest regard to the equity of squatter sovereignty. , ' Observations of this kind are so frequent that I have fancied that eignty. during the
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