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Title: American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: McCook, Henry C. (Henry Christopher), 1837-1911
Subjects: Spiders -- United States
Publisher: (Philadelphia) author, Academy of natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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heridium above mentioned are woven at various pointsin the intervals. In a few the proprietors may be seen hanging back down-ward ; from others the spinners have disappeared into various crevices andrugosities of the rough plastered window. Further on we reach the glass window frames close against the area.In either corner, and occupying the angle for a considerable distance on either side, are stretched the triangular shaped webs of Tegenaria^®.^^°^^^ medicinalis. Some of them are quite large. All are covered^^ ^^ with cellar dust and soot. Some of them look broken and aban-doned. In others, if one follows the snare to the angle and runs his fin-ger into the turret, he will find still living the sombre colored spider thatwove the web. These webs and towers are or were the snares and homes Wohnungscolonie von Epiblemum scenicum unter lUnden. ilaK.varorszdg P6k-f;uija(Hungarian ii\Hi\vv Fauna), Vol. I., irta Herman Otto, pi. iii., Fig. (U. 238 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK.
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Fni. 260. A colony of Medicinal sj>iders, old and yonng, domiciled in a cellar window. COCOON LIFE ANn BAT.YUOOD. 239 of the ndult species, both male and female. Between these larger webs,occupying the angles and spread along the window frames, one sees manysmaller webs. They occupy the angles where the intersecting frames ofthe sash cross one another. They are built just underneath the frames.They are stretched from the top of the frame to the surface of the glass,and some of them are woven uj)on the glass itself. They are small ascompared with the webs of the adults, and tliey are of a bright bluish orlead colored silk, which has not been defiled by dust. I counted on this window as many as one hundred and six of theselittle tents, and in the neighlxjrhood many spiderlings may be found. But man) more have disappcaixd. Wliither have tliey gone? Alas, A Camp there can be no doubt that many of tliem have fallen victims .^ of that fratricidal strife which is sure to appear when the y

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