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3. Identify the mouth parts. Draw one of each 

 pair. 



4. How many legs? To what attached? "Which 

 is the longest pair? How many segments in each? 



5. Examine the foot. How can such slender legs 

 be adapted to this animal's habits of life? 



6. HoAV many segments in the abdomen? Do you 

 fin.d the means of breathing? 



7. What kind of food does this animal eat? How 

 does it get food? How can it escape from its 

 enemies? 



8. Of the animals that you have studied, Avhich 

 one most nearly resembles the daddy longlegs? 



9. Make a table of differences between the spider 

 and the daddy longlegs. 



Additioual Facts About the Spider and the Daddy 

 Longlegs. 



The spider and the daddy longlegs are taken to 

 represent the class Arachnida. The spider belongs 

 to one order, the Araneina, and the daddy longlegs to 

 another order, the Phalangidea. 



The daddy longlegs catches small insects which it 

 finds on various kinds of clustered flowers, or in other 

 places. Its favorite method of hunting is to run 

 about over the tops of thickly clustered shrubs or 

 weeds. Clumps of Symphoricarpus, or wolf-berry, 

 are favorite localities. For this habit, the long legs 

 and small body are admirably adapted. 



Spiders are provided with a large fang on each 

 mandible, which folds up when not in use. It is hol- 

 low and is connected with a gland in the head. It is 

 called a poison fang, and the spider is generally sup- 

 posed to be a very poisonous creature. The writer 

 has caught hundreds of spiders with tlie naked hand, 

 and has been bitten but twice, by two particularly 



