SPIDERS’ EYES.
It is well known that spiders are provided with a variable number of eyes according to their sproies. Thus the Dyedera erythina and the Sryeetria perjlda have six eyes, whilst the Mygale aoieularia, the Lyeosa vorax and the Mpeira diadema and some others have eight. It might bo supposed that those multioved monsters could sec all around thorn, but more than onojearned naturalist asserts that they are blind, at least in the daylight Numerous experiments have proved that the sppoies of spiders which spin their webs pounce upon a piece of cotton or wood, and struggle with its inanimate object as though it were a fly. Profiting by.the moment when the spider darts at its prey to break the thread which comes from the centre or its nest, it will often be seen that the spider makes a false step when ho finds an empty ■pace under his'feet. The spider is nocturnal in its habits.—L.B.A.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6492, 17 December 1881, Page 3
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157SPIDERS’ EYES. Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6492, 17 December 1881, Page 3
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