Archive image from page 290 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 ( Fi<i. 264. Funnel shaped nest of Epeira strix. Two of the above colony had established nests in tufts of a parasitic moss fastened upon dead limbs. One of these was very pretty and ingen- ious. The moss grew in a bunch about the size of a hickory . nut; this was pierced at the top, and the filaments the Moss P aside sufficiently
Archive image from page 290 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 ( Fi<i. 264. Funnel shaped nest of Epeira strix. Two of the above colony had established nests in tufts of a parasitic moss fastened upon dead limbs. One of these was very pretty and ingen- ious. The moss grew in a bunch about the size of a hickory . nut; this was pierced at the top, and the filaments the Moss P aside sufficiently to allow an interior cavity large enough to house a spider. An oval door or opening was formed near the top by bending and binding back the fibres of the plant. A secure and tasteful retreat was thus obtained at the only really available spot in the vicinity of the snare. (Fig. 266.) When the Furrow spider weaves her orb upon the ex- posed surfaces of human habitations, as the cornices of porch- es, outhouses, etc., her nest takes a form quite different from any above described. A tube of stiff, silken fibre is spun against the surface, to which it is lashed at all sides. This cylinder is jjgg about an inch long and half an inch thick, and at the end toward the orb has a circular opening about a quarter of an inch in diameter. (See Fig. 260.) The stiff texture of this nest appears to be necessary to make the walls self siipporting, inasmuch as there are no supports like the twigs and leaves found at hand in arboreal sites. Moreover, the open position of the domicile exposes the spider very freely to the assaults of the mud daubers who frequent such lo- calities, to birds, and other enemies, so that a canvas is needed of tougher text- ure than that required in sheltered sites. Nevertheless, it may be remarked that Strix will often spin a quite close tube even within a rolled leaf of two or three thicknesses. In this summary of the nest architecture of the Furrow spider it is man
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