. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. Mmidula ngnaia. F6mpUua nSMltis. ScHUa prat6rum. ^ A FORMIDABLE but iispful in«ect is the C7/7orwn 7ohati/m, which wages fierce war against cockroaches, those pests of American and Oriental houses, and its services are fully appre- ciated by the natives, none of whom would kill one of these insects on any account, or permit any one to injure it. With the slaughtered cockroaches it stocks its nest as a provision for the young when they escape from the egg. Tliese insects are tolerably num
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. Mmidula ngnaia. F6mpUua nSMltis. ScHUa prat6rum. ^ A FORMIDABLE but iispful in«ect is the C7/7orwn 7ohati/m, which wages fierce war against cockroaches, those pests of American and Oriental houses, and its services are fully appre- ciated by the natives, none of whom would kill one of these insects on any account, or permit any one to injure it. With the slaughtered cockroaches it stocks its nest as a provision for the young when they escape from the egg. Tliese insects are tolerably numerous, and are all remarkable for the bright and yet deep pui-ple and gi-een of their bodies, and sometimes of their wings. Our next subject is the Large-headed Mutilla. It is a curious, wingless insect, with head disproportionately large, when the size of its body is taken into consideration. This is aJi example of a family Avhere the females, although armed with a powerful sting, are quite destitute of wings. ]\Iost of the Mutdlidfe are exotic, requiring a large amount of heat to preserve them in health, only a very few being natives of Northern America and Europe. In some of the larger species the sting is fearfully poisonous, a single insect having been knovni to make a man so seriously ill that he lost his senses a few minutes after being stung, and his life was despaired of for some time. A chUd has been known to die from the effects of the sting inflicted by the Scarlet Mutilla of North America, an insect whose weapon is as long as the abdomen. All these insects appear to be sand-borers. We now come to the Wasps, in which the wings are folded throughout their entire length when at rest. A wasp distinguished through the slenderness of the middle part of its body is a native of Anstralia. It belongs to the Solitary Wasps, many of which are found in Europe. The curious nest of this insect is formed like a globe. The creature makes a separate nest for each egg, the material
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