Nature's Wonder-workers: Being Some Short Life-histories in the Insect World |
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... tree . lifeless . But when we put on our spec- tacles and peer into the cracks and crevices , what do we find ? Why , some of our little friends run- ning about as merrily as ever . These are the Carpenter Ants , who have gnawed out for ...
... tree . lifeless . But when we put on our spec- tacles and peer into the cracks and crevices , what do we find ? Why , some of our little friends run- ning about as merrily as ever . These are the Carpenter Ants , who have gnawed out for ...
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... trees , which are first brought into the desired position by the united strength of multitudes , and are then stuck together with home - made glue . In giving examples of the architecture employed in making their nests , we have not by ...
... trees , which are first brought into the desired position by the united strength of multitudes , and are then stuck together with home - made glue . In giving examples of the architecture employed in making their nests , we have not by ...
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... trees seem to have got covered with some kind of growth which looks like bits of cotton - wool . I can't make out what it is . First the leaves dry up , then the branches wither , and finally the tree itself dies . The currant and plum ...
... trees seem to have got covered with some kind of growth which looks like bits of cotton - wool . I can't make out what it is . First the leaves dry up , then the branches wither , and finally the tree itself dies . The currant and plum ...
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... tree , and then sucking the juices which exude therefrom . The irritation thus set up causes diseased excrescences to grow , which finally kill the tree . One aphis can , of course , do little harm , but so rapidly do they increase that ...
... tree , and then sucking the juices which exude therefrom . The irritation thus set up causes diseased excrescences to grow , which finally kill the tree . One aphis can , of course , do little harm , but so rapidly do they increase that ...
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... for ever lost , interposed , exclaiming , " Live , wretch , yet hang ! " and forth- with there dropped from the tree whereon the girl would have hanged herself a spider , suspended by its 36 NATURE'S WONDER - WORKERS .
... for ever lost , interposed , exclaiming , " Live , wretch , yet hang ! " and forth- with there dropped from the tree whereon the girl would have hanged herself a spider , suspended by its 36 NATURE'S WONDER - WORKERS .
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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.