Archive image from page 125 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 CUbiodiversity1121211-9810 Year: 1889 ( 124 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. represents the snare and cocoon of one of these spiders. The mother was hidden within a curtained screen or tower newly spun. On the beam just above the snare hung two cocoons. They were attached above and on the sides to the beam, and in front and on the sides to the flap of the snare. T
Archive image from page 125 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 CUbiodiversity1121211-9810 Year: 1889 ( 124 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. represents the snare and cocoon of one of these spiders. The mother was hidden within a curtained screen or tower newly spun. On the beam just above the snare hung two cocoons. They were attached above and on the sides to the beam, and in front and on the sides to the flap of the snare. Their position was such that they were just above and in front of the door of the den. One of them was covered with black particles of dust. They were about half an inch in diameter. Figs. 132 and 133 are views of the manner in which the cocoons were suspended. One often finds these cocoons woven into the texture of abandoned snares in cellars and outhouses. Fig. 130 is a sketch of such a web hanging in a window of my church cellar. The pouch like snare stretched upward to the window roof, and at the bottom, on either side of the tube or tower, three button shaped cocoons were inserted. They were still white when sketched in midwinter, although the web was much soiled with the cellar dust and soot. I do not know that all three cocoons were made by one mother. Ccelotes medicinalis (Tegena- ria persica Hentz) usually spins her cocoons on or near her snare. I have found in one snare two globular cocoons covered with bits of clay. One contained round whitish eggs; the other had liv- ing spiderlings with white cephalothorax and greenish abdomen. Agrceca brunnea is an English species. The sexes pair in May, and in the month of June the female constructs an elegant vase shaped cocoon of white silk, of a fine compact structure, attached by a short foot stalk to rushes, stems of grass, heatli, or gorse. It measures about one- fourth inch in diameter, and contains from forty to fifty yel
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