Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals, Classed According to Their Principle of ConstructionHarper & Brothers, 1866 - 651 páginas |
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... -The LAPIDARY BEE , its Colors , Disposition , and Habits . - The WASP - its Food and Habitation . - Materials and Architecture of the Nest . - Disposition , Form , and Number of the Cells . - Biography of a viii CONTENTS .
... -The LAPIDARY BEE , its Colors , Disposition , and Habits . - The WASP - its Food and Habitation . - Materials and Architecture of the Nest . - Disposition , Form , and Number of the Cells . - Biography of a viii CONTENTS .
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... Cells . - Food of the Young . -The POPPY BEE . - The Pith - boring BEES and their Habits . - Structure of the Cells and Escape of the Young . - Economy of Labor . - Shell - nests of Bees .-- Wonderful adaptation to Circumstances . - How ...
... Cells . - Food of the Young . -The POPPY BEE . - The Pith - boring BEES and their Habits . - Structure of the Cells and Escape of the Young . - Economy of Labor . - Shell - nests of Bees .-- Wonderful adaptation to Circumstances . - How ...
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... Cells in each Tier . - The common WASP as a Pensile Insect.- Gigantic Nest.- Union of three Colonies.- Character of the Wasp . The NORWEGIAN WASP . - Structure and Locality of its Nest . - Classifica- tion of the Wasps . - The ...
... Cells in each Tier . - The common WASP as a Pensile Insect.- Gigantic Nest.- Union of three Colonies.- Character of the Wasp . The NORWEGIAN WASP . - Structure and Locality of its Nest . - Classifica- tion of the Wasps . - The ...
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... Cells . - The royal Cell , its Structure and Use . - Uses of the ordinary Cells . - Structure of the Bee - cell . - Economy of Space . - How pro- duced . - Theories of different Mathematicians . - Measurement of Angles . - A log ...
... Cells . - The royal Cell , its Structure and Use . - Uses of the ordinary Cells . - Structure of the Bee - cell . - Economy of Space . - How pro- duced . - Theories of different Mathematicians . - Measurement of Angles . - A log ...
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... cells and passages is ex- tremely doubtful , and our total ignorance on the subject affords another reason why the habits of this wonderful animal should be better studied . The only object that can at present be sur- mised is , that ...
... cells and passages is ex- tremely doubtful , and our total ignorance on the subject affords another reason why the habits of this wonderful animal should be better studied . The only object that can at present be sur- mised is , that ...
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Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals ... John George Wood Visualização integral - 1866 |
Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals ... John George Wood Visualização integral - 1866 |
Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals ... John George Wood Visualização integral - 1866 |
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Página 345 - The prisoner generally becomes fat, and is esteemed a very dainty morsel by the natives, while the poor slave of a husband gets so lean that, on the sudden lowering of the temperature, which sometimes happens after a fall of rain, he is benumbed, falls down, and dies.
Página 309 - ... or rose-coloured silk, and is frequently seen in the narrow alleys of the forest, suspended from the extreme tip of an outstanding leaf by a strong silken thread five or six inches in length. It forms a very conspicuous object, hanging thus in midair. The glossy threads with which it is knitted are stout, and the structure is therefore not liable to be torn by the beaks of insectivorous birds...
Página 253 - I again sat down among the stones in front, where I could see the nest, not concealing myself, but remaining motionless, waiting for the bird's re-appearance. I had not to wait long : a loud whirr, and there she was suspended in the air before her nest. She soon espied me, and came within a foot of my eyes, hovering just in front of my face. I remained still, however, when I heard the whirring of another just above me, perhaps the mate ; but I durst not look towards him lest the turning of my head...
Página iii - HOMES WITHOUT HANDS; a Description of the Habitations of Animals, classed according to their Principle of Construction.
Página 540 - The rook, however, remains in society the year throughout. In flocks it builds its nest, in flocks it seeks for food, and in flocks it retires to roost. About two miles to the eastward of this place are the woods of Nostell Priory, where, from time immemorial, the rooks have retired to pass the night. I suspect, by the observations which I have been able to make on the morning and evening transit of these birds, that there is not another roosting-place for, at least, thirty miles to the westward...
Página 354 - ... at this moment the little widower, or bridegroom, seemed as if he would warble out his very life with eestasy of joy. After remaining about half a minute in, they both flew off, but returned in a few minutes, and instantly began to carry out the eggs, feathers, and some of the sticks, supplying the place of the two latter with materials of the same sort ; and ultimately succeeded in raising a brood of seven young, all of which escaped in safety.
Página 488 - The nest is usually fixed among the horizontal branches of an apple-tree; sometimes in a solitary thorn, crab or cedar, in some retired part of the woods. It is constructed with little art, and scarcely any concavity, of small sticks and twigs, intermixed with green weeds, and blossoms of the common maple.
Página 345 - Kolobeng, that the bird comes forth when the young are fully fledged, at the period when the corn is ripe ; indeed, her appearance abroad with her young, is one of the signs they have for knowing when it ought to be so. As that is about the end of April, the time is between two and three months. She is said sometimes to hatch two eggs, and when the young of these are full-fledged, other two are just out of the egg-shells : she then leaves the nest with the two elder, the orifice is again plastered...
Página 392 - I have at all times watched the same antcities during the last twelve years, and I know that what I stated in my former letter is true. I visited the same cities yesterday, and found the crop of ant-rice growing finely, and exhibiting also the signs of high cultivation, and not a blade of any other kind of grass or seed was to be seen within twelve inches of the circular row x>f ant-rice.
Página 475 - In the midst of this dreary drought, it was wonderful to see those tiny creatures, the ants, running about with their accustomed vivacity. I put the bulb of a thermometer three inches under the soil, in the sun, at midday, and found the mercury to stand at 132° to 134°; and if certain kinds of beetles were placed on the surface, they ran about a few seconds and expired. But this broiling heat only augmented the activity of the long-legged black ants...