Insect Architecture..Charles Knight, ... Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, ... Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh; Robertson & Atkinson, Glasgow; Wakeman, Dublin; Willmer, Liverpool; and Baines & Company, Leeds., 1830 - 420 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
angles animal ant-hill ant-lion ants aphides appear architecture ascertained bark bedeguar beetles body bottom branch building caterpillar cavity cells chamber chrysalis clay cocoon colour combs common common wasp composed constructed contrived covered deposited described detached diameter distance earth edge eggs employed entrance excavation feed feet fibres flies gall-fly galleries galls glass gnawing goat-moth grub habits hatched hive hole hollow honey Huber on Bees inch ingenious insects instinct interior Kirby and Spence labour larvæ Latreille leaf leaves mandibles manner mason-bees materials moth natural naturalists nest nurse-bees observed operations ovipositor pellets perfect pieces placed plants pollen portion produced propolis pupa purpose Réaumur remarked rose-tree round sand says seen shape side silk similar singular social caterpillars sometimes species spider spin spinnerets stone structure substance surface teeth tent thick thread tion tree walls wasp wax-workers whole wood workers young
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Página 8 - O ! would the Sons of Men once think their Eyes And Reason giv'n them but to study Flies! See Nature in some partial narrow shape, And let the Author of the Whole escape : Learn but to trifle; or, who most observe, To wonder at their Maker, not to serve!
Página 72 - Dog, whose excavations are so commodious as to render it unnecessary that our bird should dig for himself, as he is said to do in other parts of the world, where no burrowing animals exist.
Página 72 - ... base, and seldom rising as high as eighteen inches above the surface of the soil. The entrance is placed either at the top or on the side, and the whole mound is beaten down externally, especially at the summit, resembling a much used footpath.
Página 55 - When she has in this manner hung the little chamber all round with this splendid scarlet tapestry, of which she is not sparing, but extends it even beyond the entrance, she then fills it with the pollen of flowers mixed with honey, to the height of about half an inch. In this magazine of provisions for her future progeny she lays an egg, and over it folds down the tapestry of poppy-petals from above.
Página 285 - ... nut. The animals themselves are very small, not more than half as big as the common red ant in England. They had stings, but scarcely force enough to make them felt : They had, however, a power of tormenting us in an equal, if not...
Página 76 - One sheet, however, of such paper as this would form but a fragile ceiling, quite insufficient to prevent the earth from falling down into the nest. The wasp, accordingly, is not satisfied with her work till she has spread fifteen or sixteen layers one above the other, rendering the wall altogether nearly two inches thick. The several layers are not placed in contact like the layers of a piece of pasteboard; but with small intervals or open spaces between, appearing somewhat like a grotto built with...
Página 355 - ... aim; but if it chanced to want anything of being perfectly opposite, would, at first peep, immediately slide down again, — till taking better notice, it would come the next time exactly upon the fly's back : but if this happened not to be within a competent leap, then would this insect move so softly, as the very shadow of the gnomon seemed not to be more imperceptible, unless the fly moved ; and then would the spider move also in the same proportion, keeping that just time with her motion,...
Página 10 - Carolina, about twenty miles from the former place, can have striking and melancholy proofs of this fact. In some places the whole woods, as far as you can see around you, are dead, stripped of the bark, their wintry-looking arms and bare trunks bleaching in the sun, and tumbling in ruins before every blast, presenting a frightful picture of desolation.
Página 16 - Trifling, therefore, and, perhaps, contemptible, as to the unthinking may seem the study of a butterfly, yet, when we consider the art and mechanism displayed in so minute a structure, the fluids circulating in vessels so small as almost to escape the sight, the beauty of the wings and covering, and the manner in which each part is adapted for its peculiar functions, we cannot but be struck with wonder and admiration, and must feel convinced...
Página 343 - Every day in fine weather, in Autumn chiefly, do I see those spiders shooting out their webs and mounting aloft : they will go off from your finger if you will take them into your hand. Last Summer one alighted on my book as I was reading in the parlour ; and, running to the top of the page, and shooting out a web, took its departure from thence. But what I most wondered at was, that it went off with considerable velocity in a place where no air was stirring; and I am sure that I did not assist it...