Evenings at the microscope : or, Researches among the minuter organs and forms of animal life (1884)
Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 230
what lightning-like rapidity the larger net-weaverswill, with the assistance of these feet, roll a dense web-of silk around the body of a helpless fly, swathing itup, like an Egyptian mummy, in many folds of cloth,in an instant. Look, then, at the extreme tip of the ultimate joint.Two stout hooked… … CLAWS OF SPIDER. or concave surface set with teeth (eighteen on each ii*this example), very regularly cut, like those of a comb,which are minute an the commencement of the seriesnear the base of the claw, and gradually increase inlength to the tip. These are doubtless sensible organs oftouch,…
Zoology · Microscopy
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