Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 243
this case the fly flew as the spider jumped, and it is doubt-ful if the little Attus could have held the Musca even if the latterhad been fairly caught. Smaller flies, tree-hoppers, larvae of smallmoths, gnats, midges, and the like are the common prey of thisspider. Sometimes it attacks insects… … A LITTLE BLACK AND SPOTTED JUMPING-SPIDER ON GUARD. He is between two honeysuckle-leaves. Several of the eightbright eyes of the spider are looking at the intruder. The nest con-tains eggs. low a revised precept—learn to labor and to hustle. On the sunny side of this tree-trunk, on theold barn…
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