Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1907 — Spider that Makes Fine Cobwebs. [ARTICLE]

Spider that Makes Fine Cobwebs.

The queen of spiders—the largest, handsomest and most capable workman of her tribe —Is the orange-yellow and black creature known as orange Argiope. Hera are the most beautiful cobwebs made, hung low to catch the Innumerable Insects required for a rather large appetite, and you find them among the bushes and vines and In the fields Dr. Henry O. McCook, president of the American Entomological Society, describes her habits and hauuts. Arglope, as the author relates, captures and tie* up her victims as ably as a cowboy might do with a lasso, and abe excels the cowboy by manufacturing her own rope as abo goes.