Nature's Wonder-workers: Being Some Short Life-histories in the Insect World |
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... mother , the male , and the neuter . We place the queen first , as she is the largest , the male being somewhat smaller , and the neuter the smallest of them all . The last- named are sometimes subdivided into two classes- Female . Male ...
... mother , the male , and the neuter . We place the queen first , as she is the largest , the male being somewhat smaller , and the neuter the smallest of them all . The last- named are sometimes subdivided into two classes- Female . Male ...
Page 12
... to become the queen - mothers of a community . The abdomen contains the stomach and intestines , the sting , and sacs for secreting poison . All insects breathe through holes in their sides called spiracles 12 NATURE'S WONDER - WORKERS .
... to become the queen - mothers of a community . The abdomen contains the stomach and intestines , the sting , and sacs for secreting poison . All insects breathe through holes in their sides called spiracles 12 NATURE'S WONDER - WORKERS .
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... mother drops them about anywhere in her journeyings through the nest , seemingly quite careless as to the well - being of her offspring . Not so , however , are her faithful subjects , who , following her , carefully collect the tiny ...
... mother drops them about anywhere in her journeyings through the nest , seemingly quite careless as to the well - being of her offspring . Not so , however , are her faithful subjects , who , following her , carefully collect the tiny ...
Page 33
... round of life as their mothers did before them . It is a most curious sight to see the ants stroking the sides of the aphides with their antennæ , to extract the tiny drops of honey ; as also is the FRIENDS AND Foes . 33.
... round of life as their mothers did before them . It is a most curious sight to see the ants stroking the sides of the aphides with their antennæ , to extract the tiny drops of honey ; as also is the FRIENDS AND Foes . 33.
Page 39
... ! Truly Arachne is the mother of a wonderful race of spinners . Nature , however , never does things by halves . It is by her web , and her web alone , that a spider can get her living ; therefore she has been. SPINNERS AND WEAVERS . 39.
... ! Truly Arachne is the mother of a wonderful race of spinners . Nature , however , never does things by halves . It is by her web , and her web alone , that a spider can get her living ; therefore she has been. SPINNERS AND WEAVERS . 39.
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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.