An Introduction to Entomology: Or, Elements of the Natural History of Insects : Comprisng an Account of Noxious and Useful Insects, of Their Metamorphoses, Food, Strategems, Habitations, Societies, Motions, Noises, Hybernation, Instinct, Etc. Etc, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 |
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abdomen amongst animals antennæ ants anus Aphides appear attack bees beetles body caterpillar cells Cicada circumstances claws cocoon cold colour combs common covered creatures drones eggs elytra emitted enemies entomologist fact feed feet females flies fluid former formicary Fulgora furnished Geer genus give gnats ground grub habitation head Hist hive hive-bee honey Huber humble-bees hybernation Hymenoptera Ibid inhabitants insects instance instinct kind labours larva larvæ Latr latter legs light luminous males mandibles means moth motion move nervures nest neuters noise noticed observed occasion organs Orthoptera pass perfect posterior prey probably produced prolegs propolis pupa pupæ queen reason Reaum Reaumur remarkable resemble says seems seen segments side similar singular societies sometimes soon sound species spiders spiracles substance suckers surface swarm tarsi thread tibiæ torpid Trans trees tribe Trichoptera usually walk wasps winglets wings winter workers
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Página 170 - ... and at once disarm them of their weapons, and suck their bodies for the sake of their honeybags. Sometimes he would fill his bosom between his shirt and his skin with a number of these captives, and sometimes would confine them in bottles. He was a very...
Página 5 - Th' impending woe sat heavy on his breast. He summons straight his denizens of air ; The lucid squadrons round the sails repair : Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but Zephyrs to the train beneath. 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, Loose to the wind their airy garments flew, Thin...
Página 423 - tis night. That eye so finely wrought, Beyond the search of sense, the soar of thought, Now vainly asks the scenes she left behind ; Its orb so full, its vision so confined! "Who guides the patient pilgrim to her cell ? Who bids her soul with conscious triumph swell ? With conscious truth retrace the mazy clue Of varied scents, that charmed her as she flew ? Hail, MEMORY, hail ! thy universal reign Guards the least link of Being's glorious chain.
Página 422 - In less than half an hour a great company of ants sallied out of their hole, climbed the ceiling, crept along the string into the pot, and began to eat again. This they continued until the treacle was all consumed, one swarm running up the string while another passed down a.
Página 365 - Vorticella rotatoria) and of snails, etc., after years of desiccation had not. made us familiar with similar prodigies, might have been pronounced impossible, and it is probable that many insects when thus frozen never do revive. Of the fact, however, as to several species, there is no doubt. It was first noticed by Lister, who relates that he had found caterpillars so frozen that when dropped into a glass they clinked like stones, which nevertheless revived.
Página 170 - WE had in this village, more than twenty years ago, an idiot boy, whom I well remember, who, from a child, showed a strong propensity to bees ; they were his food, his amusement, his sole object : and as people of this cast have seldom more than one point in view, so this lad exerted all his few faculties on this one pursuit. In the winter he dozed away his time, within his father's house, by the fireside, in a kind of torpid state...
Página 333 - She beckoned, and descended, and drew out, From underneath her vest, a cage, or net It rather might be called, so fine the twigs Which knit it, where, confined, two fire-flies gave Their lustre. By that light did Madoc first Behold the features of his lovely guide ; And through the entrance of the cavern gloom, He followed in full trust.
Página i - Spence's Introduction to Entomology ; or, Elements of the Natural History of Insects : Comprising an Account of Noxious and Useful Insects, of their Metamorphoses, Food, Stratagems, Habitations, Societies, Motions, Noises, Hibernation, Instinct, &c.
Página 14 - ... in doing which they kept their ranks like men of war, climbing over, as they advanced, every tree or wall that was in their way; nay, they entered into our very houses and bedchambers, like so many thieves.
Página 144 - THOU cheerful bee ! come, freely come, And travel round my woodbine bower ; Delight me with thy wandering hum, And rouse me from my musing hour ; Oh ! try no more yon tedious fields, Come, taste the sweets my garden yields ; The treasure of each blooming mine, The bud, the blossom, — all are thine.