. Marvels of insect life [microform] : a popular account of structure and habit. Insects; Insectes. 226 Marvels of Insect Life. Some observrs have that the boatman produces a sound like the ,//,â -(â ' clica' clu-u: rubbinK it* front pair of legs together at the same time. Th female boatman attaches her eggs to the stalks o -f^J^l' '^ â¢m incision with her e^n-placer, and burying about two-thirds of the ef;« in the sht. X " oth Ibu,... the^e is little difference escept in size and the absence of y^ bet e n tlu'iidant and the adult. The Insect is continuously active limughout
. Marvels of insect life [microform] : a popular account of structure and habit. Insects; Insectes. 226 Marvels of Insect Life. Some observrs have that the boatman produces a sound like the ,//,â -(â ' clica' clu-u: rubbinK it* front pair of legs together at the same time. Th female boatman attaches her eggs to the stalks o -f^J^l' '^ â¢m incision with her e^n-placer, and burying about two-thirds of the ef;« in the sht. X " oth Ibu,... the^e is little difference escept in size and the absence of y^ bet e n tlu'iidant and the adult. The Insect is continuously active limughout .â¢i the wings make their first appeanmce as buds, which expand at the final moult Green-Fly. owns or has owned a garden has ^^^^^^^^^^ ^j^:"! There is a stage in the develop- ment of the amateur gardener in which the green-fly are worse than dragons. So far as one can leani of dragons from old authors, though they may be individually terrible they are not common, not attack ing one in hordes, and arc laii;t enough to be seen from a distance. (,reeii-fly are so terribly small, s" prolific, and so ubiquitous, that yo" do not notice their advent until they have increased to million^; you destroy a million all but one. and the next time you pass that way the one has become a million again ; you spend half your sub- stance on aphis-brushes and in- secticides, and drive them from imi- favourite rose-bush only to lind that thev have taken possession ut another equally desirable. If "nh we could extirpate the green-lly. .,.,..â , . ,, , â ,â,, what gardens wc would have ! I Pkoio by] YoiNd Boatman. .\ maKnifitd sid^. showing that it li. tiKKlilifd bv thr actjiiisit iiwlv hatched boatman from thf r the "samp ViKral form throughout lilr, ciily II o( winff^ in the adult Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and
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