Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1905-06-09 | Page 6 | How Spiders Make Love

how spiders make love the courtship of the a spider Is described by an expert in in sect life as a most elaborate tion of skill and grace in dancing balancing hla his body on his long legs he moves in fit a semi circle for about two tao inches and then reversing the position and turns in the appo site direction repeating this grotesque figure scores of times and every few minutes to rock from fro m ili alje to side and to bend his brilliant legs so that they may bo be brought into full view of his adin hing mate A display but with ith marled antics a marics the love making of other sorts of ciders but this manner of courting Is not without its risks ri aks and it may often happen that the lively suitor it he prolongs pio longs hla his performance or bloms off his points of perfection too persistently Is suddenly seized and devoured by his more muscular mate