A Family Text book for the Country Or the Farmer At Home Being a Cyclopaedia
A Family Text book for the Country Or the Farmer At Home Being a Cyclopaedia
John Lauris Blake
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It is of simple construction and not liable easily to get out of order. SPIDERS. In England, and the more densely populated parts of our own country, where all the insect tribes are kept under by human assiduity, the spiders are but small and harmless. We are acquainted with few but the house spider, which weaves its web in neglected rooms ; the garden spider, that spreads its toils from tree to tree, and rests in the centre ; the wandering spider, that has no abode like the rest ; and the fiel...d spider, that is sometimes seen mounting, web and all, into the clouds. These are the chief of the spiders known to us, which, though reported venomous, are entirely inoffensive. But they form a much more terrible tribe in Africa and in Central America. In those regions, where all the insect species acquire their greatest growth, where the butterfly is seen to expand a wing as broad as our sparrow, 392 THE FARMER AT HOME. and the ant to build a habitation as tall as a man, it is not to be won dered at that the spiders are seen bearing a proportionable magnitude In fact, the bottom of the Martinico spider's body is as large as a hen's egg, and covered all over with hair.
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