. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. icessity for itages. Or ely moult; ey are still id proceed md to bud terval. In velopment e pupa, or y grub-like ^; and on arval skin particular a from an ermediate ^ill finally lale, such its young 'ud them. 5 case of I between , and fly m. life of umerous wingless She is Observe the last ?ans for it which TiiK Cows THAT Ants Milk i, 1 shall have a good dciil more to presently. A winged female like this may lly away lo another rose-bush to become the foundress of a distant colony. The same illustration also shows, i
. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. icessity for itages. Or ely moult; ey are still id proceed md to bud terval. In velopment e pupa, or y grub-like ^; and on arval skin particular a from an ermediate ^ill finally lale, such its young 'ud them. 5 case of I between , and fly m. life of umerous wingless She is Observe the last ?ans for it which TiiK Cows THAT Ants Milk i, 1 shall have a good dciil more to presently. A winged female like this may lly away lo 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 uf 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. Vou can watch her so any day with a common small mag- niher, and see how, like the lady at Mr. Stiggins' tea meetmg, 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.—\VIN(;i;i) —THE i'OUNlJRlCSS OV 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. London : G. Newnes
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