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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: materials collected in the immediate neighbourhood. The operation
would be impossible if, after cementing each grain of sand, it were
necessary to stop the work of the spinnerets and go to a distance
to fetch further stony elements. Those materials have to be right
under her legs; otherwise the Spider does without and continues her
work just the same.
In my cages, the sand is too far off. To obtain it, the Spider
would have to leave the top of the dome, where the nest is being
built on its trellis-work support; she would have to come down some
nine inches. The worker refuses to take this trouble, which, if
repeated in the case of each grain, would make the action of the
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