The Life of the Spider

Perhaps You Will Become an Admirerer

Details, not dry facts but observations gathered so carefully and then presented as a beautiful web, get the reader up and close to a few types of spiders native to the author’s neighborhood. Through these types, we learn how they build their homes, how they catch their food, how they mate, and how they raise their young. The scientist compares and contrasts his specimens, whether out in the field or in his spider zoo. Although we may have never considered filling our days with seeking out the haunts of our local spiders to say nothing of filling countless notebooks with our careful notes; this book will help us to marvel when we consider the way spiders utilize their resources, and the matter-of-fact geometrical presentation of their traps.