. Annual report. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects -- Ontario Periodicals. A Wasp ( maculala} side of the abdomen is covered with a thick brown pile, like that of plush. This channel is probably a receptacle for a suppl/ of air, for use when the insect takes a plunge into the depths. Who fitted the water bug to the part it has to play ? It did not fit itself. Man could not do so, any more than he, by taking thought, could add one cubit to his stature, or make one hair white or black. Did Nature ? No—we do not deify Nature. There is a Divine Being who originated and
. Annual report. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects -- Ontario Periodicals. A Wasp ( maculala} side of the abdomen is covered with a thick brown pile, like that of plush. This channel is probably a receptacle for a suppl/ of air, for use when the insect takes a plunge into the depths. Who fitted the water bug to the part it has to play ? It did not fit itself. Man could not do so, any more than he, by taking thought, could add one cubit to his stature, or make one hair white or black. Did Nature ? No—we do not deify Nature. There is a Divine Being who originated and controls natural forces—who designed this creature, so admirable in every part. (1) The exactitude with which every species of insect is formed excites our admiration. Consider the wasp (Fig 7). The male has 13 joints in the antenna : the female has 12—neither more nor less in either A. \ /^J^ case. The male has invariably 7 segments in the abdomen, and the female 6. Then, moreover, the limbs of the wasp consist of five parts—coxa, trocanter, femur, tibia and tarsus ; and in the tarsus there »re five joints. Who counted out these things and fixed the rule ? Who traced out the lines and spaces in the wings, so exactly that the species of the insect may be told from the wings alone ? The same God of whom David wrote :— " Thine eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect ; and in Thy book all my membei's were written which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there were none of ; Ps. CXXXIX, 16. The God who counts and measures. Who taught Maculata Linn, to build its wonderful nest of wood-pulp ; and gave ifc the geometrical and mechanical skill to form its hexago' al cells (Fig. 8), and suspend them, tier below tier, in such a marvell us way ? The same God, " Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehend- ed the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scal
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