Archive image from page 79 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 ( 78 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. and so stretched and fastened to adjacent objects, that the mother leaves her precious casket so well poised and finely hung that even the strongest wind fails to disturb its balance when a good position has been selected. In this position it will commonly remain until the brood is hatched;
Archive image from page 79 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 ( 78 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. and so stretched and fastened to adjacent objects, that the mother leaves her precious casket so well poised and finely hung that even the strongest wind fails to disturb its balance when a good position has been selected. In this position it will commonly remain until the brood is hatched; but, as we have already seen, sometimes the mother's care is misplaced. Stat)ihty j sometimes happens that the cocoon is simply anchored to leaves, and, when the autumn brings the usual fall of foliage, it is carried down to the ground. Tlicrc, buried among rubbish, covered with snows and rjiins, the chances for development of the young are seemingly not very good. Yet even thus it is possible that, in sites comparatively undisturbed by tramping feet of men and animals, the eggs may remain healthful throughout winter, and yield their broodling Argiopes when spring suns dissolve the snow and the spring wind has scattered tlie leaves. It is not an unusual thing for Cophinaria to hang her cocoon in the angle of walls in a house or outbuilding. (Fig. 40.) I have met a number of such cases in the outlying parts of Philadel- phia, as, for example, Germantown and West Philadelphia. There still remain in those sections a number of gardens and spacious yards, within which this large and beautiful creature has maintained her position against all encroachments of civilization since the landing of the Swedish pioneers. Their snares are woven upon the vines which cluster about arbors, outbuildings, and verandahs; and it is a common thing for the mother, when the cocooning time has come, to slip underneath a roof or cornice, and there suspend her egg sac. In this case she protects it by a s
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