INGENIOUS SPIDERS
The Royal Society was recently entertained by a distinguished traveller with an account of a spider living in Australia which makes its habitation along the seashore, in the crevices of the rocks, between high and low water marks. But when the tide is in their homes are covered with water. Instead of deserting them, however, the spiders solve the difficulty by means of closely woven sheets of silk, which they stretch over the entrances, behind which they manage to retain sufficient air to keep them alive during the time tbev remain SUD . merged.
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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 5 June 1914, Page 2
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95INGENIOUS SPIDERS Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 5 June 1914, Page 2
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