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The Wonders of Instinct

CHAPTER 9
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With one quick emission, the viscous, pale-yellow eggs are laid in the basin, where they heap together in the shape of a globe which projects largely outside the cavity.

The spinnerets are once more set going.

With short movements, as the tip of the abdomen rises and falls to weave the round mat, they cover up the exposed hemisphere.

The result is a pill set in the middle of a circular carpet.
The legs, hitherto idle, are now working.

They take up and break off one by one the threads that keep the round mat stretched on the coarse supporting network.


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