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MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1961
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(Helltr It Trlbunr SyndioU, 1961)
1961)
Miranda always dresses In
black with splashes of bright
orange, and she lives in a gar
den or alongside a road.
.If you know her you will
call her a spider; if you have
... had an introduction you will
know her as the golden gar
den spider, but her real name
is Miranda.
; " ' She and her kind did' their
bit during the last world war
' by supplying miles of silk
thread; thread so fine it was
the only material available for
use in range finders and other
optical instruments in which
the circular field of vision
j must be divided by i fin
, line. , ,
Miranda belongs to the spe-
. cics o spiders known as the
: "orb-weavers." Her web may
be two or more feet across,
placed on trees or large weeds
or wherever there is a reason
able chance of catching in
sects. The web is a complex
structure of spirals and spokes
geometrically perfect and con-
taining two kinds of threads-
some sticky, others smooth
and non-adhesiye.
The center of Miranda';
web is often sheeted over, or
it may be composed of lrregu
lar sections of silk in designs
that may roughly resemble
the letters of an alphabet. In
the center of this silken skein
sits Miranda, always with her
head downward.
Quick Strike
The instant an insect strikes
any section of the web she
darts to it and rapidly throws
a skein of silk around tne
struggling victim. In a matter
of seconds the Insect can
neither move nor escape., If
the spider is hungry she may
consume the captive. After
he has eaten what she wants,
she cuts out that section of the
web holding the remains of
her feast and drops it to the
ground;
There on the ground waits
the male spider. What drops
is his. He has to be content
with what she gives him for
he is only- a fraction of her
size. Should he be foolish I
enough to attempt to better!
' .Vila Inwlv nnflitian. she would I
kill and eat him.
h Should a large and power
ul insect, such as a grasshop
per,' blunder, into the web,
Miranda has a special way to
deal with him. She jerks the
web violently to and fro like
a monkey yanking at the bars
of its cage, in order to entan
gle the hopper with sticky
threads. At the fight instant
she will dash in and bite the
victim with , her poisonous
fangs. ' ' ;
Powerless Victim
' The poison renders the vic
tim powerless; the spider
throws a silken shroud around
it, and what was a grasshop
per is now a blob of motion
less flesh.
Whether she eats him to
day or next week makes little
difference, he is paralyzed; he
Is not dead but Is incapable
of motion. He must wait in his
silken shroud for the day
when he will be eaten. As the
days go by other insects are
entangled; each Is treated the
: same until there may ba doz
ens of still bodies tangled in
the web.
Miranda never gives up; she
will take care of all who
come. And, too, the web usu
ally holds more than the
"living dead"; it also holds
the little silken sacs in which
Miranda has carefully laid
hundreds of liny, bead -like
eggs. Here, then ,ln the spider
web Is the embodiment of the
skein of life-Miranda herself
waiting for more victims;
shrouded beings waiting to be
; eaten; eggs waiting to be
hatched; and below it all, the
father, an insignificant male,
also waiting for food or death,
whichever the lady In the
; black dress decides. Poor lit
'. tie dope-he who walls; if he
ever had a dream It would be
a nightmare.
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