. American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . e available for the capture of preythan a Triangle spider with a complete web. Ihave no doubt that, had I w-aited to see an insect strike the sector thuscontrolled by the fore feet, I should have seen this Orbweaver let go theclustered traplines held iii her claws precisely as the Ray and Trianglespiders habitually release their single traplines. Another example was afforded by the snare of a full grown Stellate spider (Epeira stellata)
. American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . e available for the capture of preythan a Triangle spider with a complete web. Ihave no doubt that, had I w-aited to see an insect strike the sector thuscontrolled by the fore feet, I should have seen this Orbweaver let go theclustered traplines held iii her claws precisely as the Ray and Trianglespiders habitually release their single traplines. Another example was afforded by the snare of a full grown Stellate spider (Epeira stellata), which by some rare ill fortune had lost the entire central part of the orb. Yet the animal was not discouraged, but + fi^T held her place at the hub with her legs doubled up in the manner usual to the species, and holding quite taut her little remainder of a web out on the margin, together with the connecting radii that had survived the wear and tear. Here, again, a few sectors quite disconnected from the hub were doing duty for trapping insects, as is habitually the case with the Ray spider. (See Fig. 331.) (Compare Fig. 331 with Fig. 187, page 196.). Fig. 330. Epeira domiciliorum,trapping with a fractured snare. 340 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. BowingOrbs. In certain species the trapline consists of several threads, as, for exam-ple, in Epeira labyrinthea. In other species, where a single trapline isthe rule, the same habit will be sometimes observed, as, for ex-Multiplex .j,-)„,ig jj-j ^j^g case of Zilla, whose trapline becomes a strangelycomplicated series of threads. (See Chapter VIII., Fig. 118.)Labyrinthea connects the central portion of her orb with the silken domeor leafy shelter within her maze of intersecting lines, by a series of straightlines sometimes quite numerous. These make a little bridgeway betweenthe tent and the orb. When the spider is within the tent the feet arereached beyond the borders and grasp at various points these t
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