no The Structure and Habits of Spiders. 



and arranged in rows across the abdomen and 

 along the middle of the thorax, Fig. 65. Before 

 the next moult, they usually leave the cocoon, 

 and for a time live together in a web spun in 

 common. A brood of young Epcira may often 

 be seen looking like a ball of wool in the top of 

 a bush, while below them, connected by threads 

 to their roost, are the skins left at their second 

 moult, and farther down, also connected by 

 threads, the cocoon with the first skins. 



Dolomcdcs spins a nest in which the young 

 live for a while after hatching. 



The young of the running spiders, Lycosidcc; 

 when they come out of the cocoon get on their 

 mother's back, and are carried round by her for 

 some time. 



Where large broods of young spiders live 

 together, they soon begin to eat one another; 

 and, if kept in confinement, one or two out of a 

 cocoon full, may be raised without any other 

 food. 



Wilder noticed this in Nephila plumipes, and 

 believes it is the natural habit of young spiders, 

 and not the result of confinement. 



As spiders grow larger, they have to moult 



