. Annual report - Entomological Society of Ontario. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests -- Periodicals; Insects -- Ontario Periodicals. Fig. 28. rounded bunch of them, into the middle of which she after-wards lays the_ eggs, as in Fig. 28. The eggs, which are like a drop of jelly, are held up hy the loose threads till the spider has time to spin under them a covering of stronger silk. Epeira vulgaris makes a similar cocoon up- ward, downward, or sidewise, as may be most convenient. Most of the Theridiidoe make cocoons of loose silk, held up in the ?webb by numerous threads. Some han
. Annual report - Entomological Society of Ontario. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests -- Periodicals; Insects -- Ontario Periodicals. Fig. 28. rounded bunch of them, into the middle of which she after-wards lays the_ eggs, as in Fig. 28. The eggs, which are like a drop of jelly, are held up hy the loose threads till the spider has time to spin under them a covering of stronger silk. Epeira vulgaris makes a similar cocoon up- ward, downward, or sidewise, as may be most convenient. Most of the Theridiidoe make cocoons of loose silk, held up in the ?webb by numerous threads. Some hang the cocoon by a stem. Fig. 29. The large species of Argiope makes a big pear-shaped cocoon hanging in grass or bushes, Fig. 30. A stem of loose brown silk is first made, and under this the eggs attached (at any rate this had been done in onewhich had been abandoned unfinished) ; then a piece is made under the eggs ; the bunch of loose silk is spun over all, and finally the paper-like shell. These cocoons are made late in the summer and the young stay in them till the next season. Many cocoons of irx-eg- ular shape may be found in cellars and other retired places during the winter ; the eggs contained in them are hatched in the following spring. The hatching occupies a day or two. First the shell, or rather the skin, cracks along the lines between the legs, and comes off in rags ; then the creature slowly stretches itself and creeps pale and soft, without any haii's or spines and only small claws on its feet ; but in a few days it gets rid of another skin and begins to look like a spider. The eyes become darker coloured, marks on the thorax become more distinct, and a dark stripe appears across the edge of each segment of the abdomen; the hairs are long and few in number. Before the next month, the brood usually leaves the cocoon and for a time they live together in a web spun in common. As the spider grows large it has to moult from time to time ; as many as nine
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