Fig. 65.
Dolomedes spins a nest in which the young live for a while after hatching.
The young of the running spiders, Lycosidæ, when they come out of the cocoon get on their mother’s back, and are carried round by her for some time.
Where large broods of young spiders live together, they soon begin to eat one another; and, if kept in confinement, one or two out of a cocoon full, may be raised without any other food.
Wilder noticed this in Nephila plumipes, and believes it is the natural habit of young spiders, and not the result of confinement.
Fig. 66.
