Archive image from page 164 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 CUbiodiversity1121211-9810 Year: 1889 ( COMPABATIVE COCOONING INDUSTRIES. 161 During this and the earlier part of her weaving it seemed to me that tlie silk escaped from the posterior pair of spinnerets alone. It came out as white silk with a little yellowish cast in it, bearing a pretty gloss. The spinnerets were widely flared, and the silk issued in Use of Hind Leg, sev
Archive image from page 164 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 CUbiodiversity1121211-9810 Year: 1889 ( COMPABATIVE COCOONING INDUSTRIES. 161 During this and the earlier part of her weaving it seemed to me that tlie silk escaped from the posterior pair of spinnerets alone. It came out as white silk with a little yellowish cast in it, bearing a pretty gloss. The spinnerets were widely flared, and the silk issued in Use of Hind Leg, several filaments. The hind leg was thrown upward as the spider moved and seized these filaments with the foot, apparently using all the spines from the claws upward to the tarsal joint, and even part of the metatarsus. The thread was carried away from the abdomen rather slowly toward the cocoon. (Figs. 194 and 195.') At the same moment, also, the abdomen approached the cocoon without touching it. Between the spinnerets and the spider's foot the silken filaments were stretched taut (Fig. 196), and after the first gentle motion of approximating the cocoon the abdomen was swung in the oppositf direction; that is, away
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