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 

 other end of the tube and hides in the grass till the 

 danger is passed. This is called a funnel web. 



The common house spider makes a small, mostly 

 triangular bag net 

 with threads run- 

 ninsj above and 



Net at Grass SfiJ, 



Web <;/ ffous. Spider. 



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below it in all di- > - 

 rections and watches it from some 

 convenient place, hanging back 

 downwards on some threads in the 

 web, which is called a cobweb. 

 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. Uloborus makes 



II W' of Efcira. 



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