American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . Fig. 175. Fie. 176. Fi«. 175. The cocooning burrow of Lycosa saccata, made underneath a stone. The walls of mingled silkand soil. This figure shows the nest as exposed when the stone was removed. Fig. 176. The stoneunder which the burrow of Fig. 175 was made. The under part of the stone is sho^vn turned upward. original cushion. Thereupon she attaches it to her siiinnerets, where it iscarried until the young are hatched. I had often wondere
American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . Fig. 175. Fie. 176. Fi«. 175. The cocooning burrow of Lycosa saccata, made underneath a stone. The walls of mingled silkand soil. This figure shows the nest as exposed when the stone was removed. Fig. 176. The stoneunder which the burrow of Fig. 175 was made. The under part of the stone is sho^vn turned upward. original cushion. Thereupon she attaches it to her siiinnerets, where it iscarried until the young are hatched. I had often wondered how the roundegg ball of the Lycosid was put together, and the mechanical ingenuity andsimplicity of the method were now apparent. Tlie period consumed inthe whole act of cocooning was less than four hours, and the act of ovi-positing took less than half an hour. Shortly after the egg sac was fin-ished the mother cut her way out of the silken cover woven over herlittle cavern. She had evidently thus secluded herself for the purpose ofspinning her cocoon. This was in accord with a firmty fixed habit of theLycosids to exclude themselves, before mak
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