Weather and Webs.
Spiders, according to a Hungarian I scientist, are weather experts'. If it! is going to rain the spider promptly j shortens the long threads which support its 1 web. If it is going to be hot and fine it lengthens them, thus enabling him to take a sunbath more easily. Again, if the spider is observed inactive by the side of hit' web after a shower, it indicates there is much more rain to come. If it is seen busily Epinning immediately after a shower there will be no more rain that day. This insect barometer j also knows all about the moon. ; When it is going to be a bright night J it promptly etrengthens its Web— i presumably because there will be I more chance food fluttering about at ' such times.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 358, 12 February 1937, Page 3
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136Weather and Webs. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 358, 12 February 1937, Page 3
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