Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 570
.When anything gets on the web it lets go of a threadof silk and the net springs forward and catches the in-sect. I have often put little ants on the web and Ihave seen the web spring. My brother and I collectbutterflies and other insects and we have quite a num-ber. There is a very small spider… … THE GARDEN-SPIDER AND ITS COCOON. On page 559 is an illustration of a little spi-der with its round web. Of course all spidersbegin little, and those that in August make webshalf a yard across may in the spring makecircular webs no bigger than a watch-face. 558 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS.…
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