American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . usual size, strung within a fewinches of each other. They had been spun against the wall of a kitchenin a house in Western Missouri. The spider mother was also sent, but thespecimen was much dried up, and in such a condition that it could notbe very satisfactorily studied. It seemed to differ in no particular fromArgiope cophinaria. If it be indeed the same species, what are the pecul-iar circumstances that have causedsuch a remarkable vari
American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . usual size, strung within a fewinches of each other. They had been spun against the wall of a kitchenin a house in Western Missouri. The spider mother was also sent, but thespecimen was much dried up, and in such a condition that it could notbe very satisfactorily studied. It seemed to differ in no particular fromArgiope cophinaria. If it be indeed the same species, what are the pecul-iar circumstances that have causedsuch a remarkable variation inhabit ? Is it true that Cophinariadoes, more frequenth^ than hasbeen supposed, indulge in the lux-ury of an additional egg case ?Two cocoons of this lot were open-ed and found to contain young spi-ders tliat had hatched, but diedwithin the egg sac. The spider-lings were not counted, but theywere very numerous. During the summer of 1888 afemale Cophinaria wasdiscovered in the Farm-ers Market of Philadel-phia upon the meat stallof one of the had probably been brought into the market from the country, hid- DoubleCocooning 105. Uloborusstring on adj< American Naturalist, December, 1887, page 1122. MATERNAL INDUSTRY : COCOONS OF ORBWEAVERS. 109 den among vegetable leaves, as the huge tarantula and the large Lateri-grade spider, Heterapoda venatoria, are brought to our port from theWest Indies in bunches of bananas and other fruit. Or, she may havefloated in, as a young balloonist, from some city garden; for the species isabundant in open grounds within the city limits. Instead of brushingher down and killing her, after the usual manner of dealing with suchcreatures, the farmer took a fancy to preserve her, and would allow noone around his stall to inflict any injury upon her. She wove her char-acteristic web against one of the iron rods for suspending meat, chickens,game, etc., and there remained secure during the season. Some time between the 10th
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