American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . FRi. 5S. Fig. 60. Fig. 56. Globular cocoon of Insular spider, spun in a paper box. Fig. 57. Cocoon of Bpeira insularis,woven against a leaf within a glass tumbler. (Natural size.) Fic. 58. Cocoou of Epeira domicill-orum. within a curled leaf. Fig. 59. Epeira cocoon enclosed mthin a curled leaf. Fig. 60. Epeira cocoons overspun with a common tent. MATERNAL INDUSTRY : COCOONS OF ORBWEAVERS. 87. Fi.;. 61. Epeira cocoon in angle of a wall, prot
American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . FRi. 5S. Fig. 60. Fig. 56. Globular cocoon of Insular spider, spun in a paper box. Fig. 57. Cocoon of Bpeira insularis,woven against a leaf within a glass tumbler. (Natural size.) Fic. 58. Cocoou of Epeira domicill-orum. within a curled leaf. Fig. 59. Epeira cocoon enclosed mthin a curled leaf. Fig. 60. Epeira cocoons overspun with a common tent. MATERNAL INDUSTRY : COCOONS OF ORBWEAVERS. 87. Fi.;. 61. Epeira cocoon in angle of a wall, protectedby a tent or palisade of lines. flossy cocoon case, the shelter of the bark being, no doubt, sufficient barrieragainst assault of enemies and stress of weather. A favorite site of thissort is the trunk of an old hickory tree, whose flaky outer bark, curledup at the free ends, offers an acces-sible retreat. A cocoon of Insularis, in my col-lection, spun within a small paper box, is a globular ball ofCocoon of 1, -1, , , ., T , . yellow silken plush tliree-Insulans. ?{ \ , . ,. rourths ot an nich m di-ameter and of a light yellow color.(See Plate IV., Vol. II.) It is hungagainst the side of the box (Fig. 56)in the midst of a maze of short rightlines an inch and a half wide andhigh. These lines are knotted to-gether at innumerable points, which are marked by little white dots. Thismeshed envelope extends nearly to the cocoon, and certainly appears tobe a sufficient barricade against hymenopterous invaders, although it wasnot able to
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