
: 
She often chooses for her building- 
place some of our common roadside 
« a, plants. No site is more 
Nuvi to her liking than a clus- 
¥ ter of goldenrod ora bunch 
of wild asters. 
She makes her founda- 
tion of the same kind of 
The Spinner Family 



Cribellum and spinnerets 
of the Silk-Comber dry, inelastic silk that all 
her sisters use. These threads are 
stretched irregularly from one leaf or 
flower to another. Sometimes all the 
flowers on one plant are tied together 
with these dainty cords. 
When the frame-work is done the 
Spinner is ready to build in cross 
pieces and squares of silk from her 
eribellum. And now for the combs. 
She places one of her hind legs under 
her abdomen so that the comb is di- 
rectly under the cribellum, the foot 
resting upon the other hind leg. ‘This 
done, she moves her legs rapidly back 
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