Archive image from page 115 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 ( 116 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. Closely related to Sclopetaria is the well known species Epeira patagiata. It is distributed throughout Europe, and is one of the common species of Syria. Its round snares must have been familiar objects to the Epeira ancient Palestinian prophets, and are as likely as any other to have su
Archive image from page 115 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 ( 116 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. Closely related to Sclopetaria is the well known species Epeira patagiata. It is distributed throughout Europe, and is one of the common species of Syria. Its round snares must have been familiar objects to the Epeira ancient Palestinian prophets, and are as likely as any other to have suggested the several Scriptural metaphors drawn from the spider's web. It is an abundant species in parts of the United States, especially in New England along the seashore, and in the Adirondacks and northern sections of New York. I have studied its habits and spin- ningwork in these parts, and find that they diifer in no respect from those of Sclopetaria. I have little doubt that the two spiders are one species, and indeed one finds it difficult to separate them into even two well defined varieties. Epeira benjamina Walck., the Domicile Spider (Epeira domiciliorum, of Hentz), has a very wide dis- tribution. Hentz found it in Alabama; Em- P® . ., erton in New England; I have collected it Spider ' Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Canada, New York, Ohio, New Jersey; and Mr. Peck- ham in Wisconsin. Dr. Marx has specimens extending northward and westward from Rhode Island, through Minnesota, Nebraska, Colorado, to Spring Lake, Utah; and southwest as far as Fort Graham, Texas. It thus has been traced over the entire United States to the Rocky Mountains. In Colorado it has a vertical dis- tribution of 12,000 feet. In the South, Hentz says that she is often found in dark places, and even spins lier web in dark apartments not much frequented. I never found the species, though abundant in this latitude, in any such sitesâbut usually upon bushes Pig. 105. Temporary ribbon ' â '
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