The Zoologist; A Popular Miscellany of Natural History Volume 2 download
The Zoologist; A Popular Miscellany of Natural History Volume 2 download
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Author: Senior Lecturer Edward Newman
Page Count: 204 pages
Published Date: 13 Sep 2013
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Type: Pdf
ISBN: 9781230011509
File size: 18 Mb
Download Link: The Zoologist; A Popular Miscellany of Natural History Volume 2
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ... I first was aware how a difficulty of no ordinary magnitude is got over. How do insects, whose abdomen is peduncled, draw it out of the pupa-skin, seeing the peduncle is so slender? I should have guessed that the skin would be ruptured, but it is not so. These daubers have a very long and slender peduncle, but the skin of the pupa, close in every other part, is as wide around the peduncle as around the abdomen, stretching across from the thorax to the summit of the abdomen, like a loose garment. What a beautiful example of Divine foresight in creation!July 14.--In a corner of a closet stood a little phial, about an inch and a half high, which had held ink, but it had dried up. Looking at it this morning, I was surprised to find it closed with a white dry substance like pipeclay; and on breaking this was still more surprised to find the clew of the mystery. It held no less than eighteen spiders, of a few of which, however, the abdomen was wanting. The case was clear. A dauber, to save herself the labour of building a cell, had found and made use of this substitute: a very curious instance of insect laziness. July 21.--I perceive that the dauber has returned to the phial, and having, no doubt, observed that it had been handled, has taken out every one of the spiders, which she has strewn around, and having filled the bottle with newly caught spiders, has again sealed it up with mud. I think we may infer from this, that the parent exercises a measure of watchful guardianship over her young, sealed as they are from her sight and direct interference. Aug. 18.--About this time the other species of Pelopaeus began to be busy fabricating their more artful thimble-shaped nests. It is difficult to convey by words an idea of their mode of working;...
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The Zoologist; A Popular Miscellany of Natural History Volume 2 by Senior Lecturer Edward Newman
Author: Senior Lecturer Edward Newman
Page Count: 204 pages
Published Date: 13 Sep 2013
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Type: Pdf
ISBN: 9781230011509
File size: 18 Mb
Download Link: The Zoologist; A Popular Miscellany of Natural History Volume 2
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ... I first was aware how a difficulty of no ordinary magnitude is got over. How do insects, whose abdomen is peduncled, draw it out of the pupa-skin, seeing the peduncle is so slender? I should have guessed that the skin would be ruptured, but it is not so. These daubers have a very long and slender peduncle, but the skin of the pupa, close in every other part, is as wide around the peduncle as around the abdomen, stretching across from the thorax to the summit of the abdomen, like a loose garment. What a beautiful example of Divine foresight in creation!July 14.--In a corner of a closet stood a little phial, about an inch and a half high, which had held ink, but it had dried up. Looking at it this morning, I was surprised to find it closed with a white dry substance like pipeclay; and on breaking this was still more surprised to find the clew of the mystery. It held no less than eighteen spiders, of a few of which, however, the abdomen was wanting. The case was clear. A dauber, to save herself the labour of building a cell, had found and made use of this substitute: a very curious instance of insect laziness. July 21.--I perceive that the dauber has returned to the phial, and having, no doubt, observed that it had been handled, has taken out every one of the spiders, which she has strewn around, and having filled the bottle with newly caught spiders, has again sealed it up with mud. I think we may infer from this, that the parent exercises a measure of watchful guardianship over her young, sealed as they are from her sight and direct interference. Aug. 18.--About this time the other species of Pelopaeus began to be busy fabricating their more artful thimble-shaped nests. It is difficult to convey by words an idea of their mode of working;...
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