Archive image from page 105 of American spiders and their spinning. American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits CUbiodiversity1121211-9742 Year: 1889 ( Fig. 97. Rudimentary web of female Argiope. preservation in nature of the individual and even the species. The wings do not appear to impair tlie efficacy of tiie orb as a snare for trajiping the natural prey of the spider. Such insects break upon and through the web with an elan bred of un- consciousness of danger quite, different
Archive image from page 105 of American spiders and their spinning. American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits CUbiodiversity1121211-9742 Year: 1889 ( Fig. 97. Rudimentary web of female Argiope. preservation in nature of the individual and even the species. The wings do not appear to impair tlie efficacy of tiie orb as a snare for trajiping the natural prey of the spider. Such insects break upon and through the web with an elan bred of un- consciousness of danger quite, different from the perceptible caution and hesitation which mark the conscious approach of a hymenopterous foe. In the snare figured above (Fig. 89), the number of radii was twenty-five. The )uimber of spirals in the lower part of the orb was twenty-six; in the upper part it did not exceed nine. The hub was thus placed well above the geometrical centre of the orb. This snare was spun by a female colonized upon a young tree. After the ordinary preliminary prospecting, she spun a rudimentary web, Fig. 97, consisting of a few .perpendicular lines looped and crossed, upon which she hung in the natural posture. She remained thus until evening and then spun her characteristic orb. This manner of resting u])on a few straggling ratlins is quite habitual. The male of Cophi- naria appears very small by the side of his adult, mate. He is not very active in his predatory habits after ma- turity; at least the snares upon which I have always found him appear to be poorly adapted to the capture of insects, although I have occasionally seen a fiy entangled in one of them. The drawing of one of these rudiment- ary webs, given at Fig. 98, was made from a pencil sketcli kindly furnished me several years ago by Mr. Em- erton, and is a fair representa- tion of the ordinary character of the web upon which I have found the male Coph- inaria. It may be noticed that the snare quite closely resembles the meshed h
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