. The biology of spiders. Spiders; Insects. Fig. 63.—Web of Hyptiotes. Menneus camelus, spins its webs on bushes in the neighbour- hood of streams. The web (Fig. 64) consists of a few irregularly placed threads supporting a band of about twenty threads of silk. These are adhesive, being covered with the loops of the viscid silk produced by the cribel- lum, the supernumerary spin- ning - organ already described. This little band, scarcely bigger than a postage stamp, seems at first sight far too small to catch anything. But that view disap- pears when the method of using it is discovered. The s
. The biology of spiders. Spiders; Insects. Fig. 63.—Web of Hyptiotes. Menneus camelus, spins its webs on bushes in the neighbour- hood of streams. The web (Fig. 64) consists of a few irregularly placed threads supporting a band of about twenty threads of silk. These are adhesive, being covered with the loops of the viscid silk produced by the cribel- lum, the supernumerary spin- ning - organ already described. This little band, scarcely bigger than a postage stamp, seems at first sight far too small to catch anything. But that view disap- pears when the method of using it is discovered. The spider stands close beside it with its four front legs holding the Fig web of corners of the band. Tf a moth Menneus camelus. Ihe points A, B, C, and D are approaches, the spider suddenly held in the anterior tarsi. stretches the web until it is five or six times its former size and simultaneously hurls itself. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Savory, Theodore Horace, 1896-. London : Sidgwick & Jackson
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