. American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . his woven by the orbweav-ing Furrow spider andothers of kindred habit,or by Epeira , the open dome shaped tent of Epeira domiciliorum and other spi-ders is only a modification of the architectural type. The little tube of theDrassids (Fig. 292), and numerous species of Tubitelarife that construct kin-dred domiciles, scarcely differs in any regard from the tube of the EpeiroidThaddeus and Furrow spiders. In the case of the
. American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . his woven by the orbweav-ing Furrow spider andothers of kindred habit,or by Epeira , the open dome shaped tent of Epeira domiciliorum and other spi-ders is only a modification of the architectural type. The little tube of theDrassids (Fig. 292), and numerous species of Tubitelarife that construct kin-dred domiciles, scarcely differs in any regard from the tube of the EpeiroidThaddeus and Furrow spiders. In the case of the Speckled Agalena, whosefunnel shaped web is known to all familiars of our fields, the tubular partthereof is really the spiders domicile, and the broad sheet outstretchedupon leaves, grass, or surrounding surface of its site may be re-garded as a portion of the snare. The same spider protects her-self, as is the case with many Orbweavers, by a maze of straightlines spun above the separating sheet, and which also serves in part tosustain it, and acts besides as a snare to arrest prey. If, again, we take such an example as the Medicinal spider, Tegenaria. Fig. 290. Upper figure : Turret spiders tower built on a pebble founda-tion. Lower figure: inside lining exposed by digging out the sand. Tube-weavers. 316 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK.
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