Millard County Chronicle | 1913-09-18 | Page 8 | Spiders Catch and Eat Fish.

Spiders Catch and Est Fish. Specimens of tho spider known as Thulassius Spencer! are In the museum mu-seum at Durban. Natal, and the curator, cu-rator, E. C. Chubb, has Just made scientific sci-entific announcement of the dlacovery of a member of this species In tbe act of catching fish for food. One of the spiders was captured several years ago by the Rev. N. Abraham at Greytown, and It was placed In an a(unrlum. A servant boy soon noticed the creature eating a pet flBh, and the startled clergyman left bis study to watch. The spider, three Inches across with lops extended, stnt.'oned Itself at the water's edge, with two legs on a stoao and the eight o'hers spread out on the water. After a time a fish came under the outstretched logs, which were suddenly thrown around It as the spider made a plunge, driving driv-ing Its fangs Into Its prey, and then at once climbing out on the rocks. It soon ate a fish of four times Its owd weight.