. Marvels of insect life [microform] : a popular account of structure and habit. Insects; Insectes. i6o Marvels of Insect Life. patches have the effect of painting out as it were part of the bcKlv, and so alterinK its apparent shape that it becomes exceedingly ain- lilie This likeness is especiallv noticeable when the bug is seen from the side. In some of the foreign species this resemblance to other Insects i- stronglv developed. A Brazilian siwcies' is to all appearance a young stick with thread-like bodv, and the exceedingly long legs are. of course, hner still. Ihc first pair ha\e the foot
. Marvels of insect life [microform] : a popular account of structure and habit. Insects; Insectes. i6o Marvels of Insect Life. patches have the effect of painting out as it were part of the bcKlv, and so alterinK its apparent shape that it becomes exceedingly ain- lilie This likeness is especiallv noticeable when the bug is seen from the side. In some of the foreign species this resemblance to other Insects i- stronglv developed. A Brazilian siwcies' is to all appearance a young stick with thread-like bodv, and the exceedingly long legs are. of course, hner still. Ihc first pair ha\e the foot hinged so that it can fold down on the shank, mantis-fashinn, and so serve for securing prey. A Chinese bug.^ three-quarters of an mch in length. is got up exactly like a daddv long-legs ; and a related species in Brazil bears ,,n extraordinary resemblance to a large wasp, and imitates the buzz of the wasp. \-erv little is known of the life-histories of the various species of bugs : it has been ascertained that a few species at least display some parental instin. t, such as one usuallv finds restricted to the social Insects-ants, wasps, and bcs. The most noti'worthy cxamiiU is a Briti-li species3 found on birch-trees, which the domestic virtues of th<' earwig, si'cing tli;ii she not only lays from thirty to forty egg- in a diamond-shaped batch, but mounts actually over them for three weeks, when tin \ hatch. The young bugs remain with tlnir mother, who covers them liki- a hen covers lu r chicks, until a few days before their lirst moiili. after which they separate. In the South ni Kuroi)e there is another species,' whose si, legs, and antenme bristle with long splius, among the male carries the eggs, are probablv laid in position b\ his mate ; but of this nothing cirtain is known. The ocean bugs.'* with which wc shall deal , also carrs- their eggs, but the carrier i- tli. female. In some .\merican species of In-li- water bwgs&qu
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