. 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. Spiders. 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 Line
. 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. Spiders. 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 quite resembling the nest of the Insular spider. Within this tent the mother Tlieridium domiciles, and with her dwell a number of her young. (See Fig. 294.) When the habits of American Lineweavers shall be studied more carefully, it will probably be found that Zelotypum is not alone in the matter of nidification. At least, we know that among the European Theridioids there are some species who almost equal the Epeiroids in the perfection of their nests. Theridium nervosum is one. Fig. 292. Tubular nest of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original McCook, Henry C. (Henry Christopher), 1837-1911. [Phi
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