. Natural history. For the use of schools and families. Zoology. TWO-WINGED INSECTS. 295 I 502. The Musquito family are remarkable in many re- spects, but chiefly for the peculiar mode of their meta- morphosis. The common Musquito, when first hatched, is an inhabitant of the water, and is, from its antic and rapid motions, called a Wiiggler. In Fig. 227 you see the animal of its natural size, and also as it looks when magnified. Though it lives in the water, it is not like a fish, for it has no gills. It is more like a whale, for it is obliged to come occasionally to the surface to breathe. It
. Natural history. For the use of schools and families. Zoology. TWO-WINGED INSECTS. 295 I 502. The Musquito family are remarkable in many re- spects, but chiefly for the peculiar mode of their meta- morphosis. The common Musquito, when first hatched, is an inhabitant of the water, and is, from its antic and rapid motions, called a Wiiggler. In Fig. 227 you see the animal of its natural size, and also as it looks when magnified. Though it lives in the water, it is not like a fish, for it has no gills. It is more like a whale, for it is obliged to come occasionally to the surface to breathe. Its breathing apparatus is near its tail. The air is taken in through a tube made of hairs, represented at A. After the insect arrives at its proper size it comes to the sur- face with its back upward, which gapes. open, as in the case of the Cicada (§ 493), and the winged insect emerges, as seen in an enlarged representation in Fig. 228. It. Fig. 228. rests upon its cast-ofi" skin as a boat, while it unfolds and expands its wings, and then flies ofi". Great care is re- quired in this operation, as there is danger that the in« N 2. 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 Hooker, Worthington, 1806-1867. New York, Harper & Brothers
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