The Natural History of Remarkable Insects: With Their Habits and InstinctsA. O'Neil, 1822 - 169 sider |
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The Natural History of Remarkable Insects: With Their Habits and Instincts Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 1819 |
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animal ants appears aurelia beautiful bees Beetle begin birds body bottom burst butterfly caterpillar cavity cells chrysalis colour continue corn covered creature deposited destroy devour earth Earwig eggs Emelec employed encrease enemies eyes feelers feet female flea flies flower four furnished Glow-worm glutinous grain grasshopper ground habitation happens hatched head hive hole honey horns hour inch in length instincts kind labour LANTERN FLY larva larvæ leaves leech legs lion-ant little animal live Locusts louse male manner months moth motion mouth Nature nest observed prey proboscis propolis queen rain resembling retreat sand scarcely seems seen shell side Silk-Worm skin sometimes soon spider spins spring stings substance sucks summer surface swarm teeth thread transparent Transylvania trees tribe trunk vast number voracious walls wasp whitish whole winged insect winter woodlouse worms wound young
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Side 38 - LITTLE inmate, full of mirth Chirping on my kitchen hearth. Wheresoe'er be thine abode, Always harbinger of good, Pay me for thy warm retreat With a song more soft and sweet ; In return thou shalt receive Such a strain as I can give.
Side 112 - I saw most of them very busy in carrying away the corn I had laid up in the room, I leave it to you to judge, whether it may not be...
Side 169 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Side 32 - Nothing impeded their progress, they climbed up the highest trees and scrambled over walls, and notwithstanding the exertions of several people with brooms, the verandah and outer walls of the hospital were completely covered with them. They no longer continued to move in one particular direction, but paraded backwards and forwards, wherever they could find food.
Side 108 - The corn that is laid up by ants, would shoot under ground, if those insects did not take care to prevent it. They bite off all the buds before they lay it up ; and, therefore, the corn that has lain in their nests will produce nothing.
Side 108 - They gather many small particles of dry earth, which they bring every day out of their holes, and place them round to heat them in the sun. Every ant brings a small particle of that earth in her pincers, lays it by the hole, and then goes and fetches another. Thus, in less than a quarter of an hour, one may see a vast number of such small particles of dry earth, heaped up round the hole.
Side 117 - THESE Emmets, how little they are in our eyes! We tread them to dust, and a troop of them dies, Without our regard or concern : Yet, as wise as we are, if we went to their school, There's many a sluggard and many a fool Some lessons of wisdom might learn.
Side 6 - With silver fringed and freckled o'er with gold. On the gay bosom of some fragrant flower They, idly fluttering, live their little hour ; Their life all pleasure, and their task all play, All spring their age, and sun-shine all their day. Not so the child of sorrow, wretched man, His course with toil concludes, with pain began, That his high destiny he might discern, And in misfortune's school this lesson learn,— Pleasure's the portion .of the inferior kind ; But glory, virtue, Heaven for man design'd.
Side 115 - ... of avoided going into any other hole but their own, and rather tried all other ways of making their escape. They never fled into another nest, but at the last extremity ; and sometimes rather chose to be taken, as I have often experienced.
Side 89 - As soon as this kind of snail receives the first wound from a sting, it naturally retires within its shell. In this case, the bees, instead of pasting it all over with propolis, content themselves with gluing all round the margin of the shell, which is sufficient to render the animal for ever immovably fixed.