Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1920 — How Spiders Travel. [ARTICLE]

How Spiders Travel.

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 lending on the tips of their legs, the baby spiders raise their abdomens and emit a silken thread. The faintest current wafts the gossamer in the air, and when enough is let out to permit of aerial flight the Insect drifts away. When It wishes to land It hauls in the thread. Wherever it lands it can spin webs without the slightest instructions from older spiders. Older male spiders seem to lose this gift There are about 550 species of splders In America, but only two, the house and garden spiders, are well known. '