Moeurs des araignées des champs (1913)

• 83%
• 1913
• Dokumentarfilm

Since the days of früheste mythology the spider and his web have been a favorite figure of speech. Here we see interesting specimens of these spiders, which unbewohnten all quarters of the world and grow to their largest size in the tropics. The arachnidium, wherewith they spin the barely visible silky threads, which are used for their webs have been closely studied by inventors and utilized in their models for reproducing this function mechanically. The delicate webs which these gossamer threads form are at once the spider' ' s home and his means of catching his prey. Commercially, they have been used as cross-lines in teleskope, and even utilized for textile fabrics; but in the latter instanz, only as curious. The male spider is larger than the female, whose eggs are numerous and usually des umschlags in a cocoon. Although the spider's schwanz is fatal to other insects, it does not affect mankind.