Nature's Wonder-workers: Being Some Short Life-histories in the Insect World |
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Page 58
... death would soon be her lot were she to allow her front door to remain so con- spicuous ; therefore she looks about for the best means of concealing it . She notices that the sur- rounding earth is covered with mosses or grass ; she ...
... death would soon be her lot were she to allow her front door to remain so con- spicuous ; therefore she looks about for the best means of concealing it . She notices that the sur- rounding earth is covered with mosses or grass ; she ...
Page 64
... death , because of giving way to their besetting sin ; scores and scores load themselves so heavily with their sweet stolen burdens that they cannot possibly fly , and so perish , shocking examples of bee depravity . Apparently these ...
... death , because of giving way to their besetting sin ; scores and scores load themselves so heavily with their sweet stolen burdens that they cannot possibly fly , and so perish , shocking examples of bee depravity . Apparently these ...
Page 67
... death the moment they issue from their cells in the perfect state . For this purpose she uses her sting . None but royal bees can aspire to the crown , as they only are capable of producing worker eggs ; therefore they alone have need ...
... death the moment they issue from their cells in the perfect state . For this purpose she uses her sting . None but royal bees can aspire to the crown , as they only are capable of producing worker eggs ; therefore they alone have need ...
Page 81
... death . They know perfectly well when their time has come , and present a most ludicrous picture , huddled together and trying to hide their great clumsy bodies in some out - of - the- CELLS CONSTRUCTED BY BEES . way corner . This does ...
... death . They know perfectly well when their time has come , and present a most ludicrous picture , huddled together and trying to hide their great clumsy bodies in some out - of - the- CELLS CONSTRUCTED BY BEES . way corner . This does ...
Page 82
... death , they are covered down or embalmed with propolis , which prevents any objectionable odours arising from their decaying bodies . And now for wax - making and the comb . So much honey and so much labour is expended in the manu ...
... death , they are covered down or embalmed with propolis , which prevents any objectionable odours arising from their decaying bodies . And now for wax - making and the comb . So much honey and so much labour is expended in the manu ...
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abdomen animal ant's nest antennæ ants aphides aphis appear appetite beautiful beetle birds body butterflies carry caterpillar cells CHAPTER chrysalis chrysis COCHINEAL INSECTS cockchafers cockroaches colours comb compound eyes cord cricket Daddy DADDY LONG-LEGS death delicate deposit DEVIL'S COACH-HORSE devour dwelling earth earwig eggs elytra enemies existence eyes feed female flea flies flowers fluid gall gnats grub habits hatched head hive holes honey ichneumon inch instinct kind labour lady lady-bird LARVA larvæ lays leaves legs light little creature little grub live looking magnified male mandibles MOLE CRICKET mother mygale Nature never nourishment object offspring ovipositor pair perfect insect perhaps plants produce pupa covering queen round seen shape shining side silken skin sometimes species spider spinning spiracles sting suck surface termites terrible things thorax tiny trees tubes turn wasp wherein wing-covers wings wonderful workers young
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Page 285 - Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening-sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy! —Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb and slept. And such is man; soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day!
Page 192 - Some to the sun their insect-wings unfold, Waft on the breeze, or sink in clouds of gold; Transparent forms, too fine for mortal sight, Their fluid bodies half dissolv'd in light.
Page 192 - While every beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle, on the gilded mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel...
Page 44 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he epake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 270 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 91 - Nature! great parent! whose unceasing hand Rolls round the Seasons of the changeful year, How mighty, how majestic, are thy works!
Page 182 - Since ghost there is none to affright thee. Let not the dark thee cumber ; What though the moon does slumber? The stars of the night Will lend thee their light, Like tapers clear without number.
Page 84 - Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavour in continual motion ; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience : for so work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
Page 214 - Scared from the shallows by my passing tread. Dimpling the water glides, with here and there A glossy fly, 'skimming in circlets gay The treacherous surface, while the quick-eyed trout Watches his time to spring...
Page 265 - So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And- these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.