American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . Fig. 62. Cocoon of Epeira domicUiorum, woven upon a pine tree. 88 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR In other cases, however, as in the angles of walls, porches, outhouses,etc., the silken egg pad is itself enclosed in a tent of spinningwork moreor less open. (Fig. 60.) In some cases this tent is little more than aseries of lines drawn across the angle at a little distance from the cocoon, as at Fig. 61. Strix, Sclo-petaria, and Domi
American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . Fig. 62. Cocoon of Epeira domicUiorum, woven upon a pine tree. 88 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR In other cases, however, as in the angles of walls, porches, outhouses,etc., the silken egg pad is itself enclosed in a tent of spinningwork moreor less open. (Fig. 60.) In some cases this tent is little more than aseries of lines drawn across the angle at a little distance from the cocoon, as at Fig. 61. Strix, Sclo-petaria, and Domiciliorumure all in the habit of weav-ing around their cocoonssuch a tent. A Domicile spider, whichI found in the act of com-pleting her cocoon, was con-tent with a scantier cover-ing than this. Her egg sacwas an oval mass of yellow-ish brown silk one and one-fourth inch long by three-fourths of an inch wide. Itwas fastened upon a twig ofa pine tree. At one end short lines were thickly strung across from theneedle like leaves, making a sort of fly or awning. This . ° was repeated at the other end, thus about half covering the in X 6riT}S< •11 Pill /TT cocoon, ihe mother spider liung to a tew threads above (rig. 62) her egg nest, with shrunken abdomen
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