The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-24

made out that it was dead. We put II
in box, and the next day it had spun
a cocoon. The web is made Of pink
silk. We think that inside of the web
are some little spiders. The two spiders
are yellow and gray.
Their home is in peoples houses, in
trees, corners, chicken coops. coal
houses and in any hole or corner they
can get. The spiders spin webs so that
they can catch flies. They can tell
when there is something in the web,
because they have on leg on one of the
threads. and when anything gets i'm it
pulls, and tie spiders run up and kill
it.-Carlena Rindheish. fifth grade.
The mother spider spins her web and
lays her eggs in a snug little place to
keep them warm. She puts her eggs
under a roof or in a box or between
old logs or boards or anywhere that
they will keep warm. She puts them
where the the rain, ice and snow can't
reach them. When they hatch they
are so tiny one can hardly see them,
They generally hatch in the spring.
The baby spiders are very tiny when
they are Matched. They go stringing
down on little threads. Then they take
care of themselves. They hang on
these threads till the wind blows them
on brush or fence or tree or any good
place. and there they spin cocoons
There are about 500 spiders hatch out
of the eggs from one spider. They are
hungry when they come out of the
eggs. At first the mother spider catches
flies for them. They grow very fast
and become big in a little while
Margretta Barton, fifth grade
Sometimes the spider carries the
eggs on it's back. The little spiders stay
on their mothers back until they are
big enough to spin a web for them
selves. When they are big enough
they swing down on little thread, and
all the babies get in a mass so that
you can see nothing but legs and
threads From there they let little
thread blow out in the wind, and
wherever they swing from that they
weave their Webs.-H. b, fifth grade.
Parts of the Spider.
The body is divided into two parts,
connected by a thin joint behind the
last pair of legs. The front part is
called the cephalothorax. 1t contains
the stomach, the central part of the
nervous system and the large muscles
that work the legs and jaws The
hinder half is the abdomen. 1t con-
tains the intestine. the breathing or
gans, the principal circulating vessels,
the organs of reproduction and the
spinning organs. There are four pairs
or legs, pair Of palpi resembling legs,
and pair of mandibles. The legs are
sevan-jOinted, the last joint containing
various hairs, sDines and three claws.
one of which is often replaced by
brush of hairs, enabling the animal to
walk up steep surfaces and to keep it's
face and mouth parts very clean. The
palpi, in front of the legs, are six
carrying food. The mandibles, or first
pair of limbs, are two; ointed. the Joint
next to the body often furnished with
teeth and hairs. while the outer one is
claw. Behind the last pair of legs,
on the under side of the abdomen, are
two hard, smooth patches, which cover
the front pair of breathing organs-tWo
little Sits. At the end of the body are
the silk-making organs. or spinnerets,
in three pairs, the third pair often ex-
tending behind the body like a pair of
tails. There is also a sDiracle, or
breathing pore, leading to air tubes
that branch through the abdomen.
The front of the head has eight eyes
variously arranged in different species.
The mouth has an upper and an under
lip.
courtship of Spiders.
AiAD AtAcltD 10 usually SIlldiltE. Out mas
legs relatively longer than the female.
He is also darker. These differences
become so great in some species that
the males and females would be taken
Is first to belong to different families
Van Hasselt found that the disparity
in size is so great in some cases that the
same dimensions, applied to the human
species, would result in a man six feet
in height and weighing $50 pounds
married to a woman seventy-five to
ninety feet in height and weighing
100000 pounds.
Concerning one Of the jumping spi-
ders, a gray Attida about the size of a
thumb nail, I have learned from DR..
Howard something of its courtship.
In the month of July this interesting
phenomenon among spiders occurs on
the borders of the Great Salt lake, and
no doubt many other places in the
west. Here, however. it has been more
closely observed by DR.. Howard of the
university. At that season these ami
mails come down to the shores to feed
on the insects that abound there. It
is at about this time also that the
mating season occurs. The female
spider is large and strong: the male. a
small, weak, but vain and Snowy fell
low, that seeks to attract her favor
able notice Ouv Rosajind, however, at
first pays but little attention to the in
Orlando, who chases about
after her, taking care always to keep
well out Of her reach until she con-
to receive him. If the female
makes a hostile movement, the male
out of the way. If she seems
to tolerate his presence, he begins TO
dance before her and to display his
bright colors by standing somewhat
upright, lifting his front legs and adj
vertising his attractions until he Sc
cures her temporary friendship.
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