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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: greater firmness to the web.
Increased resistance is not superfluous, for the net is sometimes
exposed to severe tests. The Epeira cannot pick and choose her
prizes. Seated motionless in the centre of her web, her eight legs
widespread to feel the shaking of the network in any direction, she
waits for what luck will bring her: now some giddy weakling unable
to control its flight, anon some powerful prey rushing headlong
with a reckless bound.
The Locust in particular, the fiery Locust, who releases the spring
of his long shanks at random, often falls into the trap. One
imagines that his strength ought to frighten the Spider; the kick
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