. In nature's workshop [microform]. Sciences de la vie; Natural history; Life sciences; Sciences naturelles. Masquerades and Disguises 99 number of animals belonging to the most different Ir^'t oT *'' n'.' ^^^"'•'^"^y °^ resembling" as It IS often called "mimicking," sundry other animals to which they are not reklly in the^easJ degree related. As before, I will begin with a smgle good typical ex- ^ ample of such mimicry, and when we have thoroughly compre- hended its nature and meaning, will pass on to the principles which govern the practice in all similar cases. No.
. In nature's workshop [microform]. Sciences de la vie; Natural history; Life sciences; Sciences naturelles. Masquerades and Disguises 99 number of animals belonging to the most different Ir^'t oT *'' n'.' ^^^"'•'^"^y °^ resembling" as It IS often called "mimicking," sundry other animals to which they are not reklly in the^easJ degree related. As before, I will begin with a smgle good typical ex- ^ ample of such mimicry, and when we have thoroughly compre- hended its nature and meaning, will pass on to the principles which govern the practice in all similar cases. No. 6 shows us, be- low, a specimen of the common English hornet. Now, every- body knows that the hornet is a large red and brown and yellow wasp, very active and irritable, with a nasty, aggressive temper, and an unpleasant way of stinging on the slightest provocation, or none at all for that matter. Further- more, everybody who has once been stung by a hornet-as I have been not infrequently in the cause of science-is keenly aware ?hat a hornIS stmg bears to an ordinary wasp's the same relation as scourging with scorpions bears to scourging wUh. NO. 6 LOWER FIGURE, THE COM- MON HORNET: UPl'ER FIGURE. THE MOTH WHICH PERSONATES IT. aM tj HHI. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. Toronto : W. Briggs
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