Archive image from page 279 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 CUbiodiversity1121211-9810 Year: 1889 ( 274 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIK SPINNINOWORK. vessel covered in the same way with innumerable webs of spiders, while sailing (hiring the month of March along the eastern coast of South America. His ship was more than two hundred miles from land and about four hundred miles south of the equator. The wind at the time, ac- cording to hi
Archive image from page 279 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 CUbiodiversity1121211-9810 Year: 1889 ( 274 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIK SPINNINOWORK. vessel covered in the same way with innumerable webs of spiders, while sailing (hiring the month of March along the eastern coast of South America. His ship was more than two hundred miles from land and about four hundred miles south of the equator. The wind at the time, ac- cording to his recollection, was blowing from the westward ; that is, from the continent. Captain Dodge, at my request, communicated the facts in writing, the incident having been impressed upon his memory by the strangeness of seeing such creatures so far out at sea. 'The spiders seemed like little elongated balls, with a sort of umbrella canopy above them. They settled upon tlie sails and rigging, and, finally, disappeared as they came.' The purpose of such a remarkable habit as these facts exhibit is, doubtless, to secure the distribution of species throughout wide Distnbu- ,.pgJQjg rpi-ig buoyant filaments of spider gossamer serve the °' tiny arachnid the same good office that is rendered the dandelion and thistle seed by the starry rays of down surrounding them. VIII. The ballooning habit of spiders gives a complete explanation of a nat- ural phenomenon which has attracted the attention of men from an early period, and which has been variously alluded to in prose and poetical writ- ings, viz., Showers of Gossamer. One who walks the open fields in tlie latter part of September or in the soft bright days of October, which is the most delightful period of our Fig. 280. A floccuient thread of gossamer, with American year, will noticc great quan- small flies entangled. .. „ ., •n. •!• n x titles of spider silk traihng and float- ing from the stalks of weeds and grasses, and indee
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