Nature's Wonder-workers: Being Some Short Life-histories in the Insect World |
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... looking around she beheld a splendid goose - such an one as she had never before seen . She went nearer to it , when lo ! the bird while making off " Let fall a golden egg With cackle and with clatter . " On several succeeding mornings ...
... looking around she beheld a splendid goose - such an one as she had never before seen . She went nearer to it , when lo ! the bird while making off " Let fall a golden egg With cackle and with clatter . " On several succeeding mornings ...
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... , seated in a soft silky chariot of its own weaving , wafted hither and thither by the breeze . Looking into the depths of a pellucid stream which winds its way through quiet meadows and shady woods 42 NATURE'S WONDER - Workers .
... , seated in a soft silky chariot of its own weaving , wafted hither and thither by the breeze . Looking into the depths of a pellucid stream which winds its way through quiet meadows and shady woods 42 NATURE'S WONDER - Workers .
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... looking almost like a splash of mud on a wall . When the mother- bee begins to build this uncomfortable - looking home , she collects a few grains of sand , mixes them WAYS WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION . 75.
... looking almost like a splash of mud on a wall . When the mother- bee begins to build this uncomfortable - looking home , she collects a few grains of sand , mixes them WAYS WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION . 75.
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... looking like hemi- spheres on either side , and the three simple ones which crown the top of the head . Each compound eye is composed of 3,500 facets . That is to say , an object is reflected 3,500 times on its surface . Every one of ...
... looking like hemi- spheres on either side , and the three simple ones which crown the top of the head . Each compound eye is composed of 3,500 facets . That is to say , an object is reflected 3,500 times on its surface . Every one of ...
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... looking grape in a bunch or plum upon a tree . Put a delicious morsel with such an inmate into your mouth , and the effects of the use of the formidable sting of the prisoner will soon be felt - so severely sometimes , that cases are on ...
... looking grape in a bunch or plum upon a tree . Put a delicious morsel with such an inmate into your mouth , and the effects of the use of the formidable sting of the prisoner will soon be felt - so severely sometimes , that cases are on ...
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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.