. 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. Spiders. STRENGTH OF WEBS AND POWER OF SPIDERS. 237 Relative Sizes. The observers were unfortunately unable to await the issue of the mat- ter, and tlierefore caught the combatants in the bottle, i)artly filled with water. The fish swam languidly at the bottom of the vessel, and the spider stood sentinel on the surface, turning when the fish turned, and watching every motion. The bottle was set aside and visited after an interval of thr
. 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. Spiders. STRENGTH OF WEBS AND POWER OF SPIDERS. 237 Relative Sizes. The observers were unfortunately unable to await the issue of the mat- ter, and tlierefore caught the combatants in the bottle, i)artly filled with water. The fish swam languidly at the bottom of the vessel, and the spider stood sentinel on the surface, turning when the fish turned, and watching every motion. The bottle was set aside and visited after an interval of three hours. The spider was then found dead at the bottom of the jar, but the fish was alive and lived twenty-four hours afterward. The spider was three-fourths of an inch long and weighed fourteen grains; the fish was three and one-fourth inches long and weighed sixty-six grains. The spider was probably bruised by the catching. The spider referred to may have been an example of Lycosa lenta or L. fati- fera, or more probably Dolomedes tcnebrosus, all of which grow to great size along streams of water, f^^t^-^^.^^^ --^:^^=^.^^,^^ I have seen very large examples of D. tenebro the Thousand Islands in upon various streams in the One of the most remarkable chanical powers of spiders is The account is authen ments of a number of of the occurrence, Bata David E. Evans found snake, nine inches long, suspended tween two shelves. Tlie snake reach the shelf below it, by about two feet apart, and the lower one lar window, through which the FX220. a A Spider Ensnares a From the upper shelf there hung ^""""^ . ^ ' '' tangled in cone, eiglit or ten mches ni diame sus along the rocks of the St. Lawrence River, and vicinity of Philadelphia, records of the physical and me- made in Silliman's Journal. ^ ticated by the names and state- gentlemen resident in the vicinity via, New York. One evening Hon. in his wine cellar a live striped by the tail in a sjjider's web be- hu
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