Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1919 — Instinct in Spiders. [ARTICLE]

Instinct in Spiders.

Spinning webs is second nature with spiders. After they are hatched from the eggs in a cocoon they cling together for about a week. Then they separate, but their legs do not carry them very far. Facing the wind and standing on the tips of their legs, the baby spiders raise their abdomens and -emit--ft—silken thread. The faintest ami when enough <s let out to permit of aerial flight the insect drifts away. When it wishes to land it hauls in the thread. Wherever ir lands it can spin webs wVhout the slightest instructions from older spiders. Older male spiders seem to lose this gift. There are about 550 species of ’ spiders in America, but only two, the house and garden spiders, are well known.