TO-DAY’S NATURE NOTE
Water-Spiders’ Stratagems A short time ago, while working on the bank of a river near Murchison, I was considerably amused by the spiders, which frequent the stones on the beaches. They are mouse-coloured, two or three inches in diameter, including legs, and are commonly called water-spiders. They appear to be as much at home in the water as on dry land, and when disturbed they sometimes run out on the water, and it' a leaf happens to be floating by, climb aboard and immetliately turn i,i upside down, still clinging to the leaf After drifting down-stream in this fashion for a while, they right themselves, walk across the water to the beach and scuttle off among the stones. They can also walk under water and remain submerged indefinitely.—W.M.D. (Murcliiyon).
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 85, 4 January 1935, Page 8
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170TO-DAY’S NATURE NOTE Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 85, 4 January 1935, Page 8
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