. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE GARDEN-SPIDER. 509. objects around. Sometimes the guy roi)es are so strong, and their elasticity so great, thai they actually draw the net out of its flat horizontal direction, and make it swell into a very shallow dome. The structure of the web is rather loose, and the fibres are necessarily very slender, but is yet strong enough to arrest and detain tolerably large insects. The spider generally remains near the middle of and below the web, and, as soon as a passing insect becomes e
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE GARDEN-SPIDER. 509. objects around. Sometimes the guy roi)es are so strong, and their elasticity so great, thai they actually draw the net out of its flat horizontal direction, and make it swell into a very shallow dome. The structure of the web is rather loose, and the fibres are necessarily very slender, but is yet strong enough to arrest and detain tolerably large insects. The spider generally remains near the middle of and below the web, and, as soon as a passing insect becomes entangled in the treacherous meshes, the spider runs nimbly to the spot, wounds the insect through the web, and so lulls it. Tne next move is to bite a hole in the web, pull the dead iusect through, and then to suck the juices from its body. The curious spider seen in tlie illustration is called the Tetragncdlia. In this spider the jaws are very large, long, widened towards tlieir tips, and diverging from each other. The eyes are nearly of the same size, and are arranged in two regular lines, nearly parallel to each other. The web which this creature spins is vertical, like that of the garden- spider. We novv- arrive at the Epeiridse, a family containing some of the strangest meml)ers of the spider race. The best known of this family is the common CxARDE^f-SPiDEE, some- times called the Ckoss-spidei:, from the marks upon its abdomen. It is illustrated in the accompanying illustration. This is thought to be the best typical example of all the male of the ™?. ? xj»j>t' ^ 1 • T nattion exie^isa. Above the pttsitioa of the Arachnidje. It is found in great numbers in gardens, eyes are seen from behind. ^Magnmed.) stretching its beautiful webs perpendicularity from branch to branch, and remaining in the centre with its head downwards, waiting for its prey. This attitude is tolerably universal among spiders; and it is rather curious that the Arachnidse shou
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