. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). A crab spider A jumping spider They live chiefly on plants and fences; some of the species conceal them- selves in flowers, where they lie in wait for the visiting insects. These spiders are colored like the flower in which they hide; they are yellow when in the goldenrod, and white when in the white trillium. The running spiders.— These are large,
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). A crab spider A jumping spider They live chiefly on plants and fences; some of the species conceal them- selves in flowers, where they lie in wait for the visiting insects. These spiders are colored like the flower in which they hide; they are yellow when in the goldenrod, and white when in the white trillium. The running spiders.— These are large, dark-colored, hairy spiders often found under stones and logs or boards. They run very swiftly and thus overcome and capture their prey. They spin no webs, but the mother spider makes a very beautiful globular sac in which she places her eggs, and she often carries this egg sac with her, attaching it to herself by means of her spinnerets. The jumping spiders.— These spiders are of medium size. They make no webs, but spin nests in which they hide in the winter or when laying eggs. They have short, stout legs, are often gray and black, but some- times have bright colors. They are remarkable for their powers of jump- ing. They move sidewise or backward with great ease and can jump a long distance. One of these jumping spiders, " dressed in a suit of pepper and salt," we often find on a windowpane, and if you put the point of a lead pencil within an inch of his face, you are likely to see a remarkably high jump. He regards the moving pencil as a fly and it is his business on the windowpane to catch flies by jumping and seizing them, as a cat jumps after a mouse. Much has been said about the bloodthirstiness of the spider; but spiders, like the rest of us, are obliged to eat in order to live, and their ways of securing their prey are no cruder than our methods of procuring chicken or lamb for our tables. To one who has watched the spiders carefully it would seem that,
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