Show AN INTEREST YNG G biological f 11 1 A BLACK 11 yudoh boys brought me in a black wid ow spider in a bottle with lier egg bag already woven and eggs inserted jn a a day or two some other afo bajos s brought in a mother big with tin pending delivery she aas put in the same bottle that night cannibalism was per formed and next morning only one bister sister remained larger with a pro longed feast on the juices of her sis ter horrible but deucedly inter later I 1 made notes egg bag laid junei june 3 first lot of former spider hatol ed out june 28 second bag hatched out july 1st the remaining spider mother securely locked in the glass bottle and no possibility of contact with a male r fed her well all of collich waa was published by us two years ago so that it wont be repeated now SHE LAID A SECOND BAG of eggs july ath locked up in die vae hot tie tle without aid of bisband on the of july after her lier death at the hands bands of a green fanged tighter fighter of aare ability I 1 decided to determine the outcome of the experiment with a pen knife I 1 slit alit open the fibrous white silken egg and there before my eyes were forty to sixty tiny pellets of lustrous white gelatine exactly like tapioca tap ioco which has lust just nicely been softened in wa ter of about the same size shape and gooey consistency with a glass I 1 saw tiny nearly formed legs waving in the air of spid erlings an in birth by only a few days alave yes waving their legs in the aid like windmills in a blow but not strong enough to turn over nor lively y enough to scamper away in five pore days approximately each tiny would have been ung ling on silken ropes of their own weaving the little globules of glistening gelatine were the yolks it if one may so say of their eggs the food mat ter being their own abdomens not aa y pantry outside on they nibble open a pot of jam or taka take a slice of pf cold pork but placed by cunning nature within ea as tiny fish in the hatchery are seen a swelling on the bielly of a tiny wriggling worm who goes in circles lickett split in the gently flowing water I 1 had read in a bulletin that in captivity that investigator had sue ceedee la in rearing five hatches but as it was not explicit that no malo male had bad been introduced cur losty b came overpowering and I 1 tried the experiment As I 1 had let fitz hue irue green fangs kill this prolific mother after bating two days I 1 couldn coulden t hold back any longer but opened cle bag had I 1 waited a week more the little cusses would have proved that they were genuine live spiders pt year I 1 will conduct the exper i 1 i ore carefully I 1 will tie tle a curiosity s neck and dump I 1 bi lu in the reservoir and then un hampered teed feed watch and wait and make copious notes it will be in te resting to know if the second and succeeding gatches are more and more males or divided in the same proportion as will be the first batch hatch the book says the black widow can lay from to eggs in a sum mer and five hatches confined well there theres s nothing like being knutty to a purpose 0 mon hobby horse let a be a goin |