American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . eneath little sheeted webs spun upon thegrass, leaves, ui)on the roadside, and even within tlie furrows of newlyplowed fields. They are i)retty little snares when thus coveredwith the beaded drojis of morning dew, forming beautiful ob-jects for study under a common pocket lens. Tegenaria medicinalis i)resents little difference from Agalena in the gen-eral liabit of the young. They leave the egg nest, rapidly disperse, andspread themselves i
American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . eneath little sheeted webs spun upon thegrass, leaves, ui)on the roadside, and even within tlie furrows of newlyplowed fields. They are i)retty little snares when thus coveredwith the beaded drojis of morning dew, forming beautiful ob-jects for study under a common pocket lens. Tegenaria medicinalis i)resents little difference from Agalena in the gen-eral liabit of the young. They leave the egg nest, rapidly disperse, andspread themselves into the neighborhood and immediately construct theircharacteristic webs. The tendency of young spiders of the Wandering tribes to form colo-nies is not very decided, as, of course, the manner in which the young-lings are reared within the mothers nest until they are able to set uphousekeeping for themselves precludes such special habits as we find inthe assemblages of Orbweavers and Lineweavers. But when the youngSaitigrades have abandoned the maternal cell, groups of them may beseen underneath a bit of bark occupying their own tiny cells, which lie. Will Fig. 259. A colony uf yoimg Agalena. COCOON LIFE AXD BABYHOOD. 237 close to each other, forming thus a miniature colony. One of these settle-ments I have redrawn from Mr. Otto Hermans description of tlie Hun-garian spider fauna. XL The disposition of some young spiders to settle in colonics in theneigliborhood of their maternal origin may well be seen in the case of the Medicinal R[)idcr. Foi examjde, in my church cellar severalA Oe ai \yij),]o^\-g have been left undisturbed, by my directions, in order that the various species inhabiting them might liave free op-portunity to multiply and build in a natural \\ay. On one window, whichis represented in the accompanying cut (Fig. 2G0), an interesting spectacleis presented to the observer. The opening for the window is a deep one,the wall being four feet in thickness. The glass ope
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