American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . ervedin the African island of the great net of the Epeiroids,stretched between trees of Panda-nus, one might count the inmatesliving in colony (en famille), andin real harmony. There werefound spiders of all ages and sizes;there were Nephila nigra and , messmates so hearty; andthere came the Linj^ihiffi to estab-lish themselves upon these hugesnares in order to glean the pettyprey. It is Vinsons opinion thatthese little
American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . ervedin the African island of the great net of the Epeiroids,stretched between trees of Panda-nus, one might count the inmatesliving in colony (en famille), andin real harmony. There werefound spiders of all ages and sizes;there were Nephila nigra and , messmates so hearty; andthere came the Linj^ihiffi to estab-lish themselves upon these hugesnares in order to glean the pettyprey. It is Vinsons opinion thatthese little aranead parasites soughtthe protection of the large Orb-weavers by suspending themselvesthereto in innumerable (Quantities,in order to avoid tlie birds and other enemies. Probably the seekingconsists in the simple and natural fact that the young were bred in theneighborhood of the webs, and continued where they were hatched, avail-ing themselves of the spare spaces in the webs of their gigantic kindred,precisely as the little Furrow spiders of our figures. (Figs. 257, 258.) TheLinyphias, however, apparently presented a case of real nest Fig. 268. Squatter sovereignty. .\ colony of youngEpeira sclopetaria, formed upon a large orb ill anopen window. X. Thus far our observations upon the habits of young spiders have beenchiefly confined to the broods of Orbweavers. We turn now to consider AruiKides des Ua hi Kiuuiuii, utc, pages xix., xxi. 236 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIK SPINNINGWORK. the habits of tlie youngHngs of otlier tribes. We shall find that, in propor-tion as the general habits of tlie species aj^proach one another, there is alikeness in the behavior of the young. Between LineweaversYoung ,^^^^ Orbweavers there is little difference. Their cocoons are com-m ., monly suspended within the intersecting lines that constitute the regular snare. The little ones issue from the cocoon and arrangethemselves in fluffy masses, following the tendency, which has alread
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