mygagle

Updated: May 18, 2025

On examining it I found that it was a great crab-spider, one of the formidable arachnida, which are said to eat young birds and other small vertebrates, though they generally, like other spiders, live upon insects. This spider the mygagle avicularia will attack humming-birds, and, indeed, other small specimens of the feathered tribe.

William Henry Giles Kingston - On the Banks of the Amazon