. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. The Cows that Ants Milk II ty for 5. Or moult; re still iroceed to bud al. In )pment Lipa, or ub-like and on 'al skin rticular rom an mediate I finally le, such young i them, case of :)etween and fly life of imerous vingless She is Dbserve the last ;ans for t which I shall have a good deal more to say presently. A winged female like this may fly away to another rose-bush to become the foundress of a distant colony. The same illustration also shows, in a greatly enlarged form, her beak or sucking appa- ratus, which con- si
. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. The Cows that Ants Milk II ty for 5. Or moult; re still iroceed to bud al. In )pment Lipa, or ub-like and on 'al skin rticular rom an mediate I finally le, such young i them, case of :)etween and fly life of imerous vingless She is Dbserve the last ;ans for t which I shall have a good deal more to say presently. A winged female like this may fly away to another rose-bush to become the foundress of a distant colony. The same illustration also shows, in a greatly enlarged form, her beak or sucking appa- ratus, which con- sists of four sharp lance - like siphons, enclosed in a pro- tective sheath or proboscis, and ad- mirably adapted both for piercing the rose-twig and for draining the juices of your choicest crimson ramblers. The aphis sticks in the point as if it were a needle, and then sucks away vigorously at the rose-tree's life-blood. You can watch her so any day with a common small mag- nifier, and see how, like the lady at Mr. Stiggins' tea meeting, she "swells wisibly" in the process. Indeed, aphides are always beautiful objects for the microscope or pocket lens, with their pale, trans- parent green bodies, their bright black eyes, their. NO. 4.—WINGED FEMALE—THE FOUNDRKSS OF A Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. New York : Doubleday & McClure
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