Emerton gives a plain account of how spiders are built and how they live, leaving out the tall tales of deadly poison and enormous strength. He covers anatomy and classification, eating and biting, the spinning of orb webs thread by thread, trap-door spiders and flying spiders, and the growth of the young, illustrated with his own engraved drawings.
A clear, careful natural history by a leading American arachnologist, still a pleasure for curious naturalists. Download the free EPUB.