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entangled. Miagrammopes then rushes to the site of the capture and, 

 again like Hyptiotes, further enswathes the unlucky insect in bluish 

 silk, which she reels and combs from her spinning organs. When her 

 victim is completely helpless, she cuts it loose and holds it in her 

 jaws and palpi. She then closes the rent in the trap, and crawls back 

 to her retreat, where she adjusts the line for the next capture. 



