THE SPIDERS AND ALLIES 



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Fig. 75. Garden spider and web. (Reduced) v 



ground as if dead. It spins a thread of silk as it drops ; 

 when the danger is over, it is able by this means to return 

 to the web. 



The eggs of the garden spider are laid in the autumn in a 

 sac of silk (Fig. 76), which may contain from five hundred 

 to two thousand eggs. These eggs hatch early in the winter, 

 and the young live in the case through the cold weather. 



