Funnel- Web Builder. 



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AGALENA AND HER FUNNEL-WEB. 

 House- Fly, Caught in the Toils, Becomes a Victim. 



They are generally darker colored, especially on the head 

 and front part of the body, and markings which are distinct 

 in the female coalesce and become darker in the male. In 

 most species these differences are not very great, but in 

 some, Argiope and Nephila for examples, where the males 

 are about one-tenth as large as the females, one would 

 hardly suppose, without other evidence, that the males and 

 females had any relationship to each other. The palpal 

 organs and the epigynum are sexual characters which do 

 not attain their functional value until after the last moult 

 has been effected. 



