Nature's Wonder-workers: Being Some Short Life-histories in the Insect World |
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Page 28
... fall a golden egg With cackle and with clatter . " On several succeeding mornings the same thing occurred , till at last the old woman began to turn things over in her mind . Thinks she to herself : — " This valuable bird might one day ...
... fall a golden egg With cackle and with clatter . " On several succeeding mornings the same thing occurred , till at last the old woman began to turn things over in her mind . Thinks she to herself : — " This valuable bird might one day ...
Page 95
... falling out of its bed . Very often the entire nest - cells and covering— is made from the pasteboard above described , and is somewhat the shape of a large swede turnip . When such a habitation becomes too small for the accommo- dation ...
... falling out of its bed . Very often the entire nest - cells and covering— is made from the pasteboard above described , and is somewhat the shape of a large swede turnip . When such a habitation becomes too small for the accommo- dation ...
Page 99
... falls an easy prey to the greedy appetite of the undeveloped wasp . What about the poor caterpillar ? The aim and ... fall victims and perish ignominiously , having been ren- dered incapable of helping themselves . " Too fragmentary ...
... falls an easy prey to the greedy appetite of the undeveloped wasp . What about the poor caterpillar ? The aim and ... fall victims and perish ignominiously , having been ren- dered incapable of helping themselves . " Too fragmentary ...
Page 114
... - going the wonderful changes which end in making an imago , the knocks fly with its head at one end of its case , until after a time it falls open on a hinge , like the lid of a cylindrical box . 114 NATURE'S WONDER - WORKERS .
... - going the wonderful changes which end in making an imago , the knocks fly with its head at one end of its case , until after a time it falls open on a hinge , like the lid of a cylindrical box . 114 NATURE'S WONDER - WORKERS .
Page 120
... fall a prey to many kinds of insects , birds , & c .; but they still eat on , heedless of the ravages made in their ranks by their enemies . They keep in one spot all their lives , probably never moving an inch along the leaf or stalk ...
... fall a prey to many kinds of insects , birds , & c .; but they still eat on , heedless of the ravages made in their ranks by their enemies . They keep in one spot all their lives , probably never moving an inch along the leaf or stalk ...
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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.