. Wild nature's ways . SPIDER MAKING 146 WILD NATURES WAYS. in clearing the air of a vast number of troublesomeflies. The illustration below shows the dew-laden spiders webs set on a very limited portionof a hedgerow, and makes one wonder how anywinged insect lives to tell the tale. Whilst in Scotland last summer, I caught abeautifully variegated female spider amongst someling, and placed her in a matchbox in my a few days she laid a ball of eggs as large asa dried pea, and embedded the whole in a beautifulcushion of siik of exactly the same tint of yellowas that of the paper b
. Wild nature's ways . SPIDER MAKING 146 WILD NATURES WAYS. in clearing the air of a vast number of troublesomeflies. The illustration below shows the dew-laden spiders webs set on a very limited portionof a hedgerow, and makes one wonder how anywinged insect lives to tell the tale. Whilst in Scotland last summer, I caught abeautifully variegated female spider amongst someling, and placed her in a matchbox in my a few days she laid a ball of eggs as large asa dried pea, and embedded the whole in a beautifulcushion of siik of exactly the same tint of yellowas that of the paper by which the chip-box wasbound together. For weeks I carried her about. SPIDERS WEBS LADEN WITH DEW. INSECTS AT WORK AND PLAY
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