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PROTECTIVE MIMICRY IN SPIDERS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

F. M. Webster
F. M. Webster
Affiliation:
Wooster, O.
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In the concluding volume of his admirable work on “American Spiders and their Spinning Work,” Page 47, Dr. McCook gives the experiences of Mr. H. O. Forbes, and myself, with two species of spiders, whose forms and habits of spinning webs on leaves, together with the peculiar coloration of their bodies, gives them a deceptive resemblance to the droppings of birds. Dr. McCook tries to account for the phenomena of this protective resemblance, by attributing it to the results of natural selection.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , February 1895 , pp. 36 - 37
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1895

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