Archive image from page 195 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 ( 196 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. species will be considered more |H|HH|HJHH9|HHH[ fully in the appropriate part StmWSSlSSsSsSK ° '' work. At present we HS8r9bJB«»b|9B8| may devote our attention to wSBBmK(BSIwOS tlic remarkable and most in- BBniraMMHBBflraiMWMM teresting character of the web. The locations in which I firs
Archive image from page 195 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 ( 196 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. species will be considered more |H|HH|HJHH9|HHH[ fully in the appropriate part StmWSSlSSsSsSK ° '' work. At present we HS8r9bJB«»b|9B8| may devote our attention to wSBBmK(BSIwOS tlic remarkable and most in- BBniraMMHBBflraiMWMM teresting character of the web. The locations in which I first discovered the snares, and where afterward I found them to be quite abundant, had been for several years a familiar and favorite hunting ground for spiders. It illustrates the fact that some of the most in- teresting discoveries that await future observers may be found near their own well known haunts, and upon ground that has been often searched by other workers, or even by themselves. The first examples of the species collected by me attracted little atten- tion so far as the snare was 187. The Ray spider seated on her snare, just before drawing the trapline. Discov- ery. concerned, because they seemed to be simply a new spe- cies, or the young of an old species of Orbweaver, hang- ing upon the remnants of webs greatly broken by or- dinary wear and tear in cap- turing insects. But the rep- etition of the form, partic- ularly the peculiar character of the open central, struck me as strange. How could the nets of several spiders possibly happen to be twist- ed into the same shape, and that shape so strikingly odd as that which I observed ? This caused me to make a
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