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64 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES.
upon them or close to their body. late their victims generally after
In a moment they become very leaping upon them-hence the;r
restless and try to escape, but appropiate name: "Jumping Taquickly
the nerve centers become rantula."
affected with gradual paralysis The adjoining photo-illustraof
the limbs, and thus they can be tions of two oval shaped cocoons
handled without the least risk. In on acactus leaf also is of rare infact,
the latter is much overdone; terest; representing one of the
BLACK AND GRAY TARANTULA ON COCOON, WITH You'xc BROOD.
like most other wild animals, they large black leaping tarantula and
seem to feel the superior human one of the gra-y and speckled types
power and always retreat first, on top of one of the cocoons, with
and try to seek a safe place be
a number of its voung brood. A
fore they put up a fight and bite rent in one of the cocoons shows
only, after direct contact or sesome
of the ova inside the breedvere
provocation. The curved
fangs of this vicious type is rath
m nest The two spiders were
er small for its size, but the poison this time chloroformed, but not
glands are large and they inocu
dead, before taking the view.
Some Texas Insect Killers
Were a majority of the myri
minutest of animalcules up to the
ads of insects throughout the con
higher organized insects.
tinent not daily and hourly kille-l These enemies of insect life are
by their enemies, humanity would manifold, but we know that in
indeed be in a terrible dilemma. particular certain bird species and
but nature has wisely provided some insect destroy enormous
that insect life be kept in certain amounts of the dipterous pests,
limits of development and in
but human genius is still wanting
crease, and a constant war of de
in inventing some radical remedy
struction is occurring, from the for the wholesale destruction, for
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Menger, Rudolph. Texas Nature Observations and Reminiscences, book, 1913; San Antonio, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth14396/m1/64/?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.