StNicholas [serial] . s thousands ofthese little wandering airships in tiny dusty eddies upward from the sunny fence this scurrying family of aerial voyagersthe members of the great composite and the chic-ory families, veritable children of the breeze,will usually predominate. After frost, though,the silken-tufted milkweeds lend their liberalquota. The cattails, the hardy Norseman ofthese air voyagers, find the icy gales of wintertheir favorite sailing-times, and they leave thedried and fluffing head in clouds. Ascending among this airy fraternity duringearlj fall, you may percha
StNicholas [serial] . s thousands ofthese little wandering airships in tiny dusty eddies upward from the sunny fence this scurrying family of aerial voyagersthe members of the great composite and the chic-ory families, veritable children of the breeze,will usually predominate. After frost, though,the silken-tufted milkweeds lend their liberalquota. The cattails, the hardy Norseman ofthese air voyagers, find the icy gales of wintertheir favorite sailing-times, and they leave thedried and fluffing head in clouds. Ascending among this airy fraternity duringearlj fall, you may perchance notice a slenderbundle of a few long, glistening, silky strands,loosely gathered together about their middle, leav-ing their free ends flying in the wind, waving up-ward from their weighted center. You mightmake many fruitless guesses as to what this queerseed is, and be wrong each time, for it is no seed,but a tiny animal. It is one of the little araneidballoonists. These tiny spiders were not caught <&r J. THE SPIDER the leaf the one to the left is almost ready to depart. The onenext to him has just sprung off. The one in the air a little to the leftof these has just started. Note the position. The highest one andthe one next, to the right and a trifle below, are in the attitude ofsmooth sailing. The last one to the right is taking in sail and isdescending. Note the little pellet held by his legs. In the panelaie shown some tiny flies entangled in the web. They are merelyentangled, and not stuck by the viscid drops as with the cross linesin the common orb web of a spider, for these strands have no vis-cid drops. in the wind accidentally, but their flight was in-tentionally and deliberately planned. The Rev. igio.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 1135 Dr. McCook, the Boswell of the spider fraternityand from whom they have kept but few of their
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