American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . COCOON LIFK AND BABYHOOD. 253. IiG. 268. Dew covered web of a young Speckled Agaleiia. 254 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. mouth with a door fitting accurately into a beveled lip. In the manufac-ture of these doors fragments of moss, the only material at the spiderlingsdisposal, were used in place of earth. The behavior of two of the brood of Epeira sclopetaria referred to (Vol. I., page 150), was notable as showing in its plenitud
American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . COCOON LIFK AND BABYHOOD. 253. IiG. 268. Dew covered web of a young Speckled Agaleiia. 254 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. mouth with a door fitting accurately into a beveled lip. In the manufac-ture of these doors fragments of moss, the only material at the spiderlingsdisposal, were used in place of earth. The behavior of two of the brood of Epeira sclopetaria referred to (Vol. I., page 150), was notable as showing in its plenitude the presence of the strongest instincts immediately after egress. A small insect, wliile oung- liovering around the lamp, was snared in the straggling lines. A spiderling near by instantly ran to it, threw out from its wee spinnerets jets of filaments, and completely enswathed the creature precisely in the manner of an adult. Another of the brood began in a few minutes after its coming to make . an orbweb. Tlie foundations were attached to the end of one of the lines hanging to the lamp globe by dropping a tliread to the table, a distance of eighteen inches; then a triangular f
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