Archive image from page 157 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 ( 158 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. mill races. I recall one such site at Bellwood in the Allegheny Mountains, where very many Stilt spiders were thus located, and had found it so admirable a feeding ground that they had grown to large proportions. Some of the orbs were fourteen inches in diameter. (Fig. 150.) With this fon
Archive image from page 157 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 ( 158 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. mill races. I recall one such site at Bellwood in the Allegheny Mountains, where very many Stilt spiders were thus located, and had found it so admirable a feeding ground that they had grown to large proportions. Some of the orbs were fourteen inches in diameter. (Fig. 150.) With this fondness for the water are associated some most interesting habits which especially adapt the Stilt spider for its favorite site. One of these was observed in individuals of the Bellwood colony above Walking mentioned. The webs were stretched between boards laid on y . narrow beams as a gangway across the mill race near the sluice gate, and also from these boards to the sides of the race itself. While studying them I was often compelled to disturb the spiders. They Fig. 150. The Stilt spider's web beneatli logs. ran from the centre of their large orbs and took shelter on the sides of the cross beams or underneath the boards. If still further disturbed, they would sometimes drop by a dragline from the lower surface of the plank and hang with their legs stretched out straight, fore and aft, in the charac- teristic position already described as assumed by them when resting along a branch or other surface. In this posture they would hang motionless for some time. (See Fig. 151, left hand of cut.) On one occasion, while attempting to seize one of these individuals, she dropped downward suddenly for several feet. I was not surprised at this motion, for it is the one resorted to by alarmed Orbweavers when
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