American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . Leaf enclosed cocoon of Epeira triaranea, swungto her silken uest and above her snare. MATERNAL INDUSTRY: COCOONS OF ORBWEAVERS. 91. Cocoon of Epeira thaddeus, swung upon a line. tough silken tent, and this appeared to belong to the spider, who, moreover,looked as though she might soon make another cocoon. The question wasstarted, but was not solved, does Triaranea weave more than one cocoon?The cocoon was a little flossybull, flattened, of
American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . Leaf enclosed cocoon of Epeira triaranea, swungto her silken uest and above her snare. MATERNAL INDUSTRY: COCOONS OF ORBWEAVERS. 91. Cocoon of Epeira thaddeus, swung upon a line. tough silken tent, and this appeared to belong to the spider, who, moreover,looked as though she might soon make another cocoon. The question wasstarted, but was not solved, does Triaranea weave more than one cocoon?The cocoon was a little flossybull, flattened, of course, onthe side attached to the captured one of the fe-males, which cocooned in abox, thus showing that thecocoons above described werethose of this species. A cocoon of Epeira thad-deus was sent to me fromVineland, by Mrs. MaryTreat. It had been spun upon some potted ferns within her lodgings. Itis a subglobose sac, of a delicate i^earl gray color, one-fourth peu-a [yiq]^ (six millimetres) in diameter. It is attached at the toi) tothaddeus. „.,,.,, ,i -j • i ^ , ,i , • , a strip of silk ribbon, or ratlier it widens out at the top into two triangular points, by which it is fastened upon a cord stretched betweentwo sprigs of fern. The egg ball thus swings free.
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