The Washington times., 1904-09-05
SPIDERS THRONG
TOWN AND FIELD
This Month They Build
Many Nests ard Webs.
NO EFFORT TO GUST THEM
Their Webs Are Hung Across Roads
and Paths, in Trees, and
On Houses.
NO EFFORT TO GUST THEM

The busy little bee is not the only in
dustrious creation known TO the world,
for Washingtonians who have been
compelled TO spend the summer in town
or in the suburbs. have found evidences
OF thrift on the part of their old friend.
the spider
No matter what this little insects dis
agreeable qualities may be I'm the way
OF implanting his singer on sensitive
human flesh, no one can deny that
he is a real worker
Wherever one turns he finds evidences
OF the little busybody's painstaking care
in building for his captives a silvery
home that. were it not quite so con-
finng, might prove a picturesque abode
for even the most fastidious
Although experts declare there Is no
particular season Of the year when the
spider is more NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
tribute to his persistent industry-it is
in the late summer that ones attention
IS more directly attracted to his house
building
Webs Innumerable.
Many residents Of out-of-t town places
who come into the city early in the
morning have remarked the innumer-
able spiderwebs that not only hang from
all over the fields as far as the eye can
reach. The grass webs are as perfect
and distinct as a colony Of country
homes, and glisten out i'm the morning
sunlight bright and CHEEKY.
Students OF spider-life say that the
little buildings are so much more no
iceable now because the dews have been
heavy. and one can readily distinguish
the webs from great distance because
the dew. I'm settling on them. forms a
focus for the suns rays. with the re-
suit that the webs look like little oliver
plots dropped right into the grass
Like many human beings. the spider
taste I'm housebuilding varies to a great
extent, and not everyone elects to cs-
taolish himself on the lawns and fields
AcrObatic Spiders.
Many ambitious. and perhaps acroba-
tic. spiders choose to erect swinging
webs. They start from the fence ran
or from a tree limb and totally regard
less Of probable passers-by. they weave
across pathways. with the result that
one is in danger OF taking most real
istic part in the oft-told tale Of The
Spider and the Fly" In certain sections
OF the suburbs it is said that these cross
road webs are so numerous that one is
constantly wlping then of his face IS
ne passes along the pathway
chronological experts say that an
other reason for the prevalence Of large
ana strong webs at this season is that
the spiders are now practically full
grown and thus can execute their web
building with more pronounced success
man early IN the spring. At that time
lhey were young and inexperienced but
now they have reached the age Of spid-
er-dlscretion, and can put up web as
good as the next one
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dissatisfied with their old camping
ground, and ny away 10 seek other
nelds. That time IS now at hand and
the spider IS migrating. True. he does
not elect TO wander very far. but the
tendency OF all Of them to go To first
one place, ana then another results in
a multiplicity Of webs, that may be Il
fine example OF sIider-iike architecture
but which brings much in temper 10
MIN who has 10 walk through a maze
OF them.
Few Webs in City.
Comparatively few webs are found in
the city. except IN larke parks lighted
by electric lights. It is around these
lights that the spider looks for unsus-
pecting but large and juicy bugs The
spider wasn't born stupid. and he knows
q thing or two about game. In CON
sequence Of this, many OF the beautiful
trees in the city parks have been made
the headquarters Of a little army Of
fOragers. and the park workrnen have
been kept busy driving them out.
This pronounced proclivity Of the
spider family 10 take possession Of the
face Of the earth viii probably be gen
erously INDUCED I'm until some agency
drives them away This. however. will
not be human effort as no steps what
ever are being taken TO eliminate them
for the reason that they are not dam
gerous. Their progression Will. there