Nature's Wonder-workers: Being Some Short Life-histories in the Insect World |
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... deposit their burdens on the shelves where the future representatives of their own race lie in rows . All are fed and tended with equal care by the nurses ; but when they come out perfect insects , what do we find ? Why , that the ash ...
... deposit their burdens on the shelves where the future representatives of their own race lie in rows . All are fed and tended with equal care by the nurses ; but when they come out perfect insects , what do we find ? Why , that the ash ...
Page 50
... deposit it in her house . She returns again and again , until her tiny balloon is full ; then she settles down to bring up her young in the way they should go — namely , to build similar pretty shining palaces and to catch unwary ...
... deposit it in her house . She returns again and again , until her tiny balloon is full ; then she settles down to bring up her young in the way they should go — namely , to build similar pretty shining palaces and to catch unwary ...
Page 57
... deposited in a convenient spot for the spider's use when she makes the wonderful little trap - door with which she closes and secures her dwelling . Because they are the only kind which construct nests closed with trap - doors , these ...
... deposited in a convenient spot for the spider's use when she makes the wonderful little trap - door with which she closes and secures her dwelling . Because they are the only kind which construct nests closed with trap - doors , these ...
Page 60
... deposits her eggs , and keeps her young , until such time as they shall grow old enough and wise enough to cater and contrive for themselves . There are many other kinds of spiders , and many other kinds of webs and nests , all ...
... deposits her eggs , and keeps her young , until such time as they shall grow old enough and wise enough to cater and contrive for themselves . There are many other kinds of spiders , and many other kinds of webs and nests , all ...
Page 65
... deposits in an ordinary- sized cell a tiny bluish - white egg , about one - twelfth of an inch long , destined to develop into a worker . In all the small cells she places this kind of egg . In E larger ones , made for the purpose , she ...
... deposits in an ordinary- sized cell a tiny bluish - white egg , about one - twelfth of an inch long , destined to develop into a worker . In all the small cells she places this kind of egg . In E larger ones , made for the purpose , she ...
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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
Popular passages
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.