 | James Rennie - Insects - 1830 - 440 pages
...jealous and pugnacious than the little elegant blue argus butterfly (Polyommatus Alexis, STEPHENS), noted and admired by all. When fully animated it will...it sits, with impunity ; even the large admirable (Vanessa atalania), at these times.it will assail and drive away. There is another small butterfly,... | |
 | John Leonard Knapp - Animals - 1831 - 330 pages
...bird : but we have^ few 196 THE PAPILIO PHI^EAS. more jealous and pugnacious lhan this little argus. When fully animated, it will not suffer any of its...flower on which it sits, with impunity; even the large admiral (vanessa atalanta) at these times it will assail and drive away. There is another small butterfly... | |
 | John Leonard Knapp, Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1853 - 370 pages
...bird : but we have few 196 THE PAPILIO PHI^EAS. more jealous and pugnacious than this little argus. When fully animated, it will not suffer any of its...flower on which it sits, with impunity ; even the large admiral (vanessa atalanta) at these times it will assail and drive away. There is another small butterfly... | |
 | Francis Orpen Morris - Butterflies - 1868 - 514 pages
...throughout the kingdom. In the "Journal of .a Naturalist," it is thus accurately noticed by Mr. Knapp: — "We have few more zealous and pugnacious insects than...up between it and the Small Copper Butterfly; and wherever these diminutive creatures come near each other, they dart into action, and continue buffeting... | |
 | Joseph Hands - Matter - 1879 - 572 pages
...contentious, and drive away rivals from their haunts. The blue argus butterfly is very jealous and pugnacious. It will not suffer any of its tribe to cross its path, or approach the flower on which it sits. (b.) Praying mantis. —This insect is a terrible cannibal-like animal, and often enters upon the most... | |
 | Jean Allan Owen, George Simonds Boulger - Animal behavior - 1902 - 508 pages
...of the sun. the Small Copper. Knapp, in his " Journal of a Naturalist," says of the common Blue, " We have few more zealous and pugnacious insects than...approach the flower on which it sits, with impunity. . . . Constant warfare is kept up between it and the Small Copper butterfly, and wherever these diminutive... | |
 | R. E - 1849 - 430 pages
...This little creature seems scarcely to know what fear is. " When fully animated," observes Mr. Knapps, "it will not suffer any of its tribe to cross its...flower on which it sits with impunity; even the large admiral (Vanessa atalanta) at these times it will assail and drive away. CONSEQUENCES OF DUELLING.... | |
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When fully animated, it will not suffer any of its tribe to cross its path, or approach the flower on which it sits, with impunity ; even the large admiral (vanessa atalanta) at these times it will assail and drive away. There is another small butterfly... 