. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. Bkitish Bloodsuckkks 237 like the conventional representations of the "ark of bulrushes " provided for the infant Moses. An industrious mother will lay some two or three hundred such ej^gs in a season, so that we need not wonder at the great columns of mosquitoes that often appear in damp places in summer. No. 2 shows the same raft seen from above, and ex-. No. 2.—THE mosquito's egg-raft, seen from above. cellently illustrates its admirable boat-shaped or saucer-shaped construction. After about three days' time,
. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. Bkitish Bloodsuckkks 237 like the conventional representations of the "ark of bulrushes " provided for the infant Moses. An industrious mother will lay some two or three hundred such ej^gs in a season, so that we need not wonder at the great columns of mosquitoes that often appear in damp places in summer. No. 2 shows the same raft seen from above, and ex-. No. 2.—THE mosquito's egg-raft, seen from above. cellently illustrates its admirable boat-shaped or saucer-shaped construction. After about three days' time, the eggs begin to hatch, and the active little larva) escape, wriggling, into the water. No. 3, which is enlarged forty diameters, exhibits the stages of the hatching pro- cess. A sort of lid or door at the lower end of the. 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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