. Marvels of insect life [microform] : a popular account of structure and habit. Insects; Insectes. .; Marvels of Insect Life. It now attaches itsi'lf tu tlu' skin bironus taut and p(>lislicp up I s,ukin« apparatus. All day, ami ni^ht. , for about ten days u h v -fl^>^ub pursues this .ourse. and destrovs many hundreds of « I hen it le reaehed the end of its labours. , .. i .1 " - stem of the plant, eontraits its length, and the In shape it beci mc^s niueh like a ^rape-stonlâ . Within the Krub has turned to a chrysalis, front which it cnerps ab.,.,t ten ihu- at
. Marvels of insect life [microform] : a popular account of structure and habit. Insects; Insectes. .; Marvels of Insect Life. It now attaches itsi'lf tu tlu' skin bironus taut and p(>lislicp up I s,ukin« apparatus. All day, ami ni^ht. , for about ten days u h v -fl^>^ub pursues this .ourse. and destrovs many hundreds of « I hen it le reaehed the end of its labours. , .. i .1 " - stem of the plant, eontraits its length, and the In shape it beci mc^s niueh like a ^rape-stonlâ . Within the Krub has turned to a chrysalis, front which it cnerps ab.,.,t ten ihu- at r .^ a black and yellow fly. These are bn«h. creatures, tlu v .ently with their win^s at rest upon fl(,wers. when they are cnMaK-d When so en(,'a(;ed. their characteristu- maikmns be closeK' examined ,d h very distinct arrangement of the win,-nervures â..>â be c,o«.^â «annnec bv those who have no desire to capture them, but to studv '"' --f;- . be this Durijosc no ltower> oin r .1 otiu. A rciinnion spiTJr* inlarB. black handiiiK of thf 'undbody AnoihiT fi'atun' shaivtl Pear-Tree Hover-Fly. ^ (our thiin. It ha* Ihc yellow ; all the xiinplitic'l in Ihis i of ttip winip. this purpfis opportunitv those of the Michael- mas-daisies in gardens, which swarm with various s))ecies of ho\er-flies. Most of them bear t'ither bands fjr spots of vullow on a black ground, and those that differ from this st\le of colouring may be detected by the winK-neuration. What this is may be learned much better from a fjlance at the photfigraph of the pear-tree hover-flv' on this page than from anv detailed description. .\ singular fact abont these flies is that the mouth is furnished with cutting lancets, as though they were blood-sucking flies requiring instru- ments for cutting the skin of the higher animals : but we believe thi v have never been known to draw blooil. Such a tvpe of mouth is nfit the be>t fitted either for sucking up nectar whi
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