SUMMER INDUSTRIES 



tangles of silk lines among the herbage to finely 

 finished webs. There is an interesting South Ameri- 

 can spider which makes its web in the early hours, 

 but rolls it up and decamps with it after the sun 

 rises. Penelope-like it destroys its webs daily, but 

 not without result to man as well as to itself, for 

 it catches the minute winged males of the destructive 

 Coccus insects. After retiring under the shade of a 

 leaf, the spider investigates the insects in its rolled- 

 up net, and spends the hot hours in digesting their 

 juices. 



PERIPATUS. 



Quite unique is the method of capture seen in 

 the case of Peripatus, an animal of ancient pedigree 

 and very wide geographical distribution. It hides 

 during the day and becomes active in the evening. 

 It captures small insects by squirting jets of slime 



on them from two papillae in its mouth. 







Fishing 



Fishing is only a variety of hunting, but it may 

 be considered separately. Typical of the patient 

 angler, the heron stands by the pool-side still 

 as a statue, but able to strike with almost electric 

 suddenness, or to fly away with dignity if we disturb 

 his fishing. But perhaps we should have given first 

 place to the angler or fishing-frog a fish that 



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