How Animals Work. 



above it she weaves a maze of threads in a pyramidal 

 form. The whole snare is a most wonderful piece of 

 work, and probably one of the most complex built by 

 the orb-weaving spiders. 



There is a little orb -weaver that may be found in most 

 gardens and outhouses, which leaves a sector of its web 



Dome-shaped Snare. 



open and entirely free from viscid threads. Through 

 the centre of this sector a telegraph line is carried, 

 connecting the little hub or centre of the snare with 

 the spider's hiding-place at the edge of the web. This 

 shelter is a more or less tubular silk-lined tent woven 

 in a corner among irregular outer lines of the snare. 



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