The ball having been carefully lowered until its sup-porting line hangs vertically, or nearly so, the threadrunning to the spider is severed by a dexterous move-ment of the clawed foot, the free end losing itself inthe globule. As soon as the thread is cut the spiderturns about and approaching the… … WAITING FOE A MOTH. Reaching well down with one of its long, arm-likefore legs it grasps the pendulum thread between theclaws with which the leg is tipped, about half an inchabove the ball. By a few well directed movementsof the other limbs the upper part of the thread isquickly passed under one of…
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