. 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. 400 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK, The above facts, uncovering as they do so hard a destiny impending over every stage of aranead life, might well awake sympathy in the breast of the most pronounced spider hater. To those who know the usefulness to man of the much enduring race, and view its destruction from the standpoint of human disadvantage, the facts are melancholy enough. But after all there seems a judicial fit
. 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. 400 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK, The above facts, uncovering as they do so hard a destiny impending over every stage of aranead life, might well awake sympathy in the breast of the most pronounced spider hater. To those who know the usefulness to man of the much enduring race, and view its destruction from the standpoint of human disadvantage, the facts are melancholy enough. But after all there seems a judicial fitness in the order of things which ap- points avengers from the midst of the insect world against the chief de- stroyer of the insect hosts. Seeing, therefore, that some check is required ui)on the excessive increase of spiders, we ma}' regard their relation to the Hymenoptera with .some comi)lacency from the view point of natural Fifi. 339. Nest of Vireo noveborocensis woven together, with bands and threads of plundered spider webs. IX. In speaking of the enemies of the spider we have thus far omitted one of the most determined and destructive—man himself. But it will be observed that I have been writing of the natural enemies of Foolishly gpjders, and in my opinion man cannot reasonably be classed Man among these. His hostility to the various families of the spider world is without reason not only, but is against reason. It is an example of indulgence in a prejudice which has been long fostered by. 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. [Philadelphia] The Author, Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia
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