. Eye spy : afield with nature among flowers and animate things . Natural history; Insects; Natural history. I20 EYE SPY like affair like that of the Argiope riparia, hung with its guy threads upon a dried fern. The ballooning or flying spiders are not con- fined to any partic- ular species. It seems to be an instinct with them all, but espe- cially with the orb- weavers, or geometri- cal web-makers, and. ;/f' .^ the wolf spiders; those queer short- legged specimens which dodge about upon the walls and fences, running for- ward or backward as the whim takes them, or even sideways in a manner a
. Eye spy : afield with nature among flowers and animate things . Natural history; Insects; Natural history. I20 EYE SPY like affair like that of the Argiope riparia, hung with its guy threads upon a dried fern. The ballooning or flying spiders are not con- fined to any partic- ular species. It seems to be an instinct with them all, but espe- cially with the orb- weavers, or geometri- cal web-makers, and. ;/f' .^ the wolf spiders; those queer short- legged specimens which dodge about upon the walls and fences, running for- ward or backward as the whim takes them, or even sideways in a manner at which a crab might turn green with envy, A shower of cobwebs of unusual extent fell in the vicinity of Brooklyn about ten years ago. hav- ing been especially noted by a party of surveyors /^. 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 Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896. New York : Harper & Brothers
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