. Natural history of animals. Containing brief descriptions of the animals figured on Tenney's Natural history tablets, but complete without the tablets. Zoology. SPIDERS. 181 wards. Some kinds of Spider have, near the princi- pal web, a silken retreat, or den, where the owner hides till the quivering spider-lines which run into its office telegraph the fact that a fly has become entan- gled ; instantly the spider rushes out of its retreat, pounces upon the victim, and bites it, if possible, put- ting into the wound a fatal poison. If the insect be too powerful for the spider, the latter waits
. Natural history of animals. Containing brief descriptions of the animals figured on Tenney's Natural history tablets, but complete without the tablets. Zoology. SPIDERS. 181 wards. Some kinds of Spider have, near the princi- pal web, a silken retreat, or den, where the owner hides till the quivering spider-lines which run into its office telegraph the fact that a fly has become entan- gled ; instantly the spider rushes out of its retreat, pounces upon the victim, and bites it, if possible, put- ting into the wound a fatal poison. If the insect be too powerful for the spider, the latter waits till the insect gets more entangled, and finally exhausted, by its efforts to escape, then binds it with silken bands, and begins to devour it. The bite of an ordinary spider will kill a fly; the bite of some of the large kinds iji South America kills the humming-bird; and some- times men are killed by a spider's bite. The female spiders lay eggs and enclose them in silken sacs. Some kinds carry the egg-sac about with them; others spin it in a safe place, and, in some instances, stay near to guard it, and to tear open the egg-sac as soon as the young are hatched, that they may escape. One of the most curious of these egg-sacs is that shown in Figure 341, and which was made by some spider which we do. Fig. 341. — Egg-case of a Spider, — the Vase-Maker. not yet know, but which may properly be called the Vase- Maker, Two "vases," like the one in the woodcut, were found standing about a foot apart on the stem of a grape-vine. The outside of the vase looks like brown paper, or it is in appearance and in tough-. 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 Tenney, Sanborn, 1827-1877; Tenney, Abby Amy (Gove) 1836-. New York, Scribner, Armstrong
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