
Mrs. Epeira’s Mouth 
am sure she does not use them to run 
with. Now she has caught a dusty 
little miller for her supper. Oh, Mrs. 
Epeira, your secret is out! You 
are using those foot-like projec- 
tions to hold the little insect close SSezaediny , 
to your mouth while you eat it. SS ay 
So these appendages are not feet, oe 
but belong to Mrs. Epeira’s mouth 
parts and are called palps, or feelers. \\\W7 
This Lady Spinner’s mouth 1s jy. 
2 7 
le =e 
very, very different from yours. 4 27 




Instead of having teeth and / “ye 
tongue on the inside, as you on A 
have, her teeth, and tongue Male palp 
too, are outside of her mouth, so all 
of her food must be chewed before it 
goes inside. ‘This being true, she could 
never get along without her palps to 
hold the food in just the right place 
while she is chewing it. 
Each palp is made up of six segments 
instead of seven—the number, you re- 
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