. A first book of zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. GRASSHOPrPJUS. AM) SPIDERS S5 ( • ^ M i ranfire of colour variation in tho . kinds. Those useful friends to farnu-rs and horticulturists on plant- Iice. One of tho coinmonost spocios is tho sovon-spot lady- bird with sevon black spots on tho ro«l win^r-covers. Spiders. Thrso animals havo four pairs of lo^s and no neck, antonnw. or wind's: honco thoy are not insects. The ^ common yardon-spidor spins a whool-shapod web between the smaller branches of trees, or in the crevices of walls. This familiar creature has t
. A first book of zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. GRASSHOPrPJUS. AM) SPIDERS S5 ( • ^ M i ranfire of colour variation in tho . kinds. Those useful friends to farnu-rs and horticulturists on plant- Iice. One of tho coinmonost spocios is tho sovon-spot lady- bird with sevon black spots on tho ro«l win^r-covers. Spiders. Thrso animals havo four pairs of lo^s and no neck, antonnw. or wind's: honco thoy are not insects. The ^ common yardon-spidor spins a whool-shapod web between the smaller branches of trees, or in the crevices of walls. This familiar creature has the head and thorax fused into one region and separated from tho bulfrinj; unseffment- ed abdomen by a narrow- waist. There is a white, cross-shaped marking on the upper or dorsal side of the abdomen: otherwise the body irf of a grayish or brownish colour. The jointed legs are long and well able to support the body: they bear bristles and two or three grasping claws at the end. In front ci the legs are two pedipalpi: these are shorter than, but other- • se resemble in appearance, the first pair of walking legs. Anterior to the pedipalpi tncre is a pair of two- jointed chelicer», which are used for seizing the prey They consist of two jointed pieces of which the proximal portion represents the handle of a knife, and against this the distal portion, at the tip of which a poison-gland opens can be receive<l like the blade of a knife into the handle. ' The mouth of a spidor is very small; the animal feeds. Fio .i^ A anJ B i*o )-hirds June Hcctli; btluw. 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 Burlend, T. H; Cornish, George A. (George Augustus), 1872-1960. Toronto : Macmillan
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