The Spinner Family 
spider is borne away to provide many 
dinners for the baby wasp. 
A small ichneumon-fly is another 
enemy of the Spinners. It finds a 
cocoon in which the spider eggs have 
been carefully stowed away, and mali- 
oe pierces a hole in the 
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“ Larve which begin industriously to devour the eggs of the spider’’ 
in. In a few days these eggs hatch 
into tiny worm-like larvee, which begin 
industriously to devour the eggs of the 
spider. They do not stop until every 
egg is eaten. 
People, too, must be counted with 
the Spinner’s foes. The tidy housewife 
does not care to have her rooms 
adorned with the silken draperies of 
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