Archive image from page 315 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 CUbiodiversity1121211-9742 Year: 1889 ( 316 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. medicinalis (or Durhami), whose web is so frequently found in cellars and shaded outhouses, the same fact meets us. There we see the thick sheet, not spread out broadly as in the case of Agalena, but rather pouched; thus forming a good receptacle for dropping insects, who are apt to roll
Archive image from page 315 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 CUbiodiversity1121211-9742 Year: 1889 ( 316 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. medicinalis (or Durhami), whose web is so frequently found in cellars and shaded outhouses, the same fact meets us. There we see the thick sheet, not spread out broadly as in the case of Agalena, but rather pouched; thus forming a good receptacle for dropping insects, who are apt to roll easily into the little round open- ing at the apex of the snare. Above this open- ing is spun a short tubu- lar tower, which also is prolonged a little way be- neath the opening. With- in this peculiar structure the spider protects herself, precisely as in the case of the Orbweavers above de- scribed. (See Fig. 221, Chapter XIV.) If we pass next to the The jumping spiders, whose bright Fig. 291. The nest of Lycosa carolinensis, built from the needle like leaves of a pine tree. Saltigrades we find the same fact forms and animated movements are familiar around our houses and S If yards, spin for their domicile thick white silken tubes, which grades. ' °'™ structure from those of the orb- weaving Furrow spider or the tubeweaving Drassid, Disdera, or Segestria. (Fig. 293.) The Lineweavers, although such close neighbors to the Orbweavers in structure, and having remarkable points of approach in certain features of the snare, are somewhat defective in points of architectural resemblance as far as the nesting tube is concerned. But they have some striking repre- sentatives of the prevailing type. There weavers ' ' example, the little lineweaving Tlieridium zelotypum which I have often observed along the trails in Adirondack for- ests, living in a little tent whose roof was the gathered leaves of a young pine tree, and whose interior was a silken tube or bell shaped dome quit
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