In Portia's Gardens
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A spider's silken thread (it is true silk), as is familiarly known, is compound, being composed of many distinct strands (five in the case of Epeira), exuding in a viscous state from the spinnerets, and immediately hardening on being united into the silken thread. Having finished the first series, she turned squarely about, and began to fill in the finer and viscous circular lines, moving now in a direction the reverse of her former one, accurately spacing by means of the third pair of legs, mo...ving on by means of the foremost and second pair, guiding the silk by the fourth or hindmost pair, and touching each radial spoke-thread with the spinneret as she passed to fasten the circular one to it with the viscous material that is secreted by special glands near the silk glands. The whole work was performed with surprising rapidity and elegance. My lamp attracted insects, of which some were caught in the new web when it was nearly finished. The spider could not resist the temptation to leave her exhausting work to kill and devour one for a luncheon, having first paralyzed it with her poisonous mandibles, doubtless blessing her good luck as she ate.
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A spider's silken thread (it is true silk), as is familiarly known, is compound, being composed of many distinct strands (five in the case of Epeira), exuding in a viscous state from the spinnerets, and immediately hardening on being united into the silken thread. Having finished the first series, she turned squarely about, and began to fill in the finer and viscous circular lines, moving now in a direction the reverse of her former one, accurately spacing by means of the third pair of legs, mo...ving on by means of the foremost and second pair, guiding the silk by the fourth or hindmost pair, and touching each radial spoke-thread with the spinneret as she passed to fasten the circular one to it with the viscous material that is secreted by special glands near the silk glands. The whole work was performed with surprising rapidity and elegance. My lamp attracted insects, of which some were caught in the new web when it was nearly finished. The spider could not resist the temptation to leave her exhausting work to kill and devour one for a luncheon, having first paralyzed it with her poisonous mandibles, doubtless blessing her good luck as she ate.
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