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60 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES.
The Haunts of the Small and Vicious Prarie
Jumping Tarantula.
For reasons of their vicious of the little insects in the act of
character and interesting life hab
emerging from its oval shaped coits
in building a large snow
coon, or breeding nest, while the
white cocoon to live and breed in, other photo shows another, but of
I submit to the readers a few a different type of spider, outside
more original observations and of its nest-both on a large cactus
photographs directly from nature leaf. This breeding nest is of
concerning the jumping tarantula. snow-white :color and silk like
The photos were prepared lately cluster; the main inside being covby
the writer during an outing tred and sheltered by an outside
near our famous Mitchell's Lake web-lining; and both serve these
hunting preserve. Much of the little dangerous creatures as shelBLACK
JUMPING TARANTULA ESCAPING ITS COCOON OR BREEDING NEST.
Which is Prepared on a Cactus Leaf
land and rocky hilly regions ter in inclement weather as well
around there is cleared of brush as a breeding haunt, the female
and cactus jungles and converted depositing immense numbers of
into cultivated land; much of it small round eggs inside i separate
though is still in the same wild
and densely woven globular weberness
as in the days of the In
cocoon. They never spin large
dians; and it is there among the outside trap nest webs like other
cpuntia cactus plants, -where quite spider species do, as they catch
numbers of the various types of their prey, mostly small insects,
the small and vicious jumping ta
with a sudden far leap, with their
rantulas or vagabond spider powerful and thick front legs
abound, and the photos show one and curved fangs.
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Menger, Rudolph. Texas Nature Observations and Reminiscences, book, 1913; San Antonio, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth14396/m1/60/?q=menger/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.