American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . nation inNature. Fig. 64. Egg mass of Epeira, show-ing the under sheet and the massof flossy padding. Of two specimens of Ejieira sclopetaria kejit by me, one cocooneil May 22(1; the otherMay 2(ith; a third about the middle of Jmie. An Epeira domiciliorum cocooued Septem-ber 10th. MATERNAL INDUSTRY: COCOONS OF ORBWEAVERS. 89. Fig. 65. Egg mass of Epeira, showingthe under sheet and outer coveringremoved. InteriorStructure overlaid, and the o
American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . nation inNature. Fig. 64. Egg mass of Epeira, show-ing the under sheet and the massof flossy padding. Of two specimens of Ejieira sclopetaria kejit by me, one cocooneil May 22(1; the otherMay 2(ith; a third about the middle of Jmie. An Epeira domiciliorum cocooued Septem-ber 10th. MATERNAL INDUSTRY: COCOONS OF ORBWEAVERS. 89. Fig. 65. Egg mass of Epeira, showingthe under sheet and outer coveringremoved. InteriorStructure overlaid, and the outer tent, four inches long, covered the others so com-pletely that one might have supposed the wliole to be the work of onespider. Undoubtedly, these works are precau-tions against ])oth enemies and tlie weather,which, although without experience of the ef-fects of either upon her offspring, the mothertakes as though she really foresaw the an egg nest of this class be openedthere will be found, in order, first, the outertent, separate from the covering of the cocoon; second, a thin whitesilken sheet, which is the outer envelope of tlie cocoon proper;third, the thick egg pad of curled silk, usually yellow; fourth,the eggs, a conical or hemispherical or spherical mass of smallyellow globules. (Fig. 04.) When the spider oviposits against a Hat sur-face, the eggs arc generally laid upon a coating or sheet of silk spreadupon the surface, and the padding is then wov
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