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Show Varieties of Spiders Have Communal Nests Fome spiders live In large coln!e In Close Intimacy not only with spider of different species, but with other Insects. In Mexico In regions at an altitude of 2.S00 yards, spiders are found that live In societies and con struct common nests of large dlmeu along like the nests of ants and bees. The nests are In great demand among the natives of the country, who take fragments of them and hang thein about tbelr rooms ss traps for files and mosquitoes. The nests are surrounded with threads that serve as hiding places In which, the spiders lie In watt for their pre. All the Insects caught are nsed as food for the colony. In the nests, which the spiders never leave for ny reason or under any circumstances, are piled heaps of flies, yet the nests are kept with the utmost ut-most cleanliness. The public hygiene of the colony la looked after by a small creature treated with scrupulous jjyspect by all the spiders. This In-nlteslmal In-nlteslmal being does for spider communities com-munities what the blind white wood louse does for ants. It la of the family fam-ily of the Lotrlcldes; It lives In the common nest with all the spiders, nourishing Itself on "everything re Jetted and cast off by them. Wash lngton Star. |