. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others. at the tip. The larva of another Coleophora mines the leaves of severaldelicate plants in September, and makes whitey-brown, and ratherglossy-looking blotches on the leaves. As soon as it has mineda sufficient space, it cuts out the mined place to form a
. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others. at the tip. The larva of another Coleophora mines the leaves of severaldelicate plants in September, and makes whitey-brown, and ratherglossy-looking blotches on the leaves. As soon as it has mineda sufficient space, it cuts out the mined place to form a case, and 150 TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. from the hairy nature of the leaf and the diamond shape of theexcision the case has a very comical appearance. Some of the dry calyxes of the common Marjoram areoften found fastened together lengthwise when the plant isgoing out of bloom, and a careful examination proves thatthey have been formed into the case of a caterpillar. Thewhitish larva of GclecJiia siibocclla may be seen to poke its palebrown head out of the end of this pretty refuge. The larvafeeds on the seeds of the plant, and when it has eaten thecontents of one flower it bites off the dry calyx, and using itas a case proceeds to another flower, and places the movablecalyx in the opening of that which is fixed, the seeds of which. THE LARVA OF Gckchia sulwcella in its case of origanum flowers.(After Stainton). it then demolishes. When the supply is exhausted, the cater-pillar bites off the second calyx, and moves off to a third, andthus the flowery case gradually increases in length till it consistsof the husks of four or five flowers. When the caterpillar hasdone with eating and flower-destroying, it attaches this singularhome either to the dried flower seed or to the stem of the plant,or to some neighbouring object, and undergoes metamorphosis.* The yellowish green caterpillar of another GelccJiia {GelecJdamarmord) injures the roots of the Ccrasthnn, which grows on thes
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