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 Web of Hous: Spider.

other end of the danger is passed.

The common triangular bag net with threads run- ning above and below it in all di- rections and watches it from some back downwards on some threads in the called a cobweb.

convenient place, hanging web, which is _ Epeira, the orb or wheel-weavers, construct a perpendicular net. It is made of strong threads spread like the spokes of a wheel, covered with fine, adhesive thread, running spiral-like from the center to the outer edge. The spider watches from the center or from some out-

side curled-up leaf. U/oborus makes

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close-woven bag net, with a tube leading sideways, or below it, in which he watches for, or eats his victims. If he meets a too formidable customer, he slides out on the

tube and hides in the grass till the This is called a funnel web. house spider makes a small, mostly

Y Web of Epcira,