Rural School Leaflet 



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4. Many spiders use silk to make snares in which they catch the crea- 

 tures on which they feed. These snares occur in many fonns. A few are 

 as follows: the cobwebs in the comers of rooms near the ceilings, each 



Filmy dome 



consisting of a sheet of silk supported by many threads; the grass spider 

 weaves a sheet of silk out on the grass and constructs a little tube at one 

 side, in which it hides; another spider builds a filmy dome, a very delicate 

 sheet of silk shaped like a half-bowl inverted, which it supports by lines 

 attached to shrubs and bushes ; but the most wonderful of all these snares 



