Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit . Photo by] Fiddler Beetle. [H. Bastin. So called on account of its fiddle shape. Its form among bectUsis uniqiie, and regarded as most remarkable. Found on theunder side of fallen trees in Photo by] A Timber Beetle. [E. Step, llic wood-boring beetles have usually a slender, straight-sidedbody, and long, many-jointed antennie. This example is anative of Britain, and affects willow and ash trees. Enlarged fourtimes. certain of their early stages, and this ismainly due to their concealed modes oflife making it diffi
Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit . Photo by] Fiddler Beetle. [H. Bastin. So called on account of its fiddle shape. Its form among bectUsis uniqiie, and regarded as most remarkable. Found on theunder side of fallen trees in Photo by] A Timber Beetle. [E. Step, llic wood-boring beetles have usually a slender, straight-sidedbody, and long, many-jointed antennie. This example is anative of Britain, and affects willow and ash trees. Enlarged fourtimes. certain of their early stages, and this ismainly due to their concealed modes oflife making it difficult—in some casesimpossible—to study these stages. Thechrysalis, as a rule, is soft, the limbs beingfree from the body. This stage usuallylasts but a few weeks, but the perfectInsect after emergence from it mostlyremains secluded for a time until its outerinteguments have hardened and developedtheir proper coloration. Beetles are to be found everywhere,and their adaptation to every kind ofenvironment has produced an enormousnumber of forms, something like 150,000species being already known, named, andclassified. So little, however, do theirhabits bring them into prominence that itis usually with surprise that the averageperson learns that the beetle
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