. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. 252 Flashlights on Nature J >'i Fig. A, vibrate sympathetically in unison with the notes of a tuning-fork, within the range of the sounds emitted by the female. In other words, hairs and drums just answer to one another. We may, therefore, reasonably conclude that the female sings in order to please and attract her wandering mate, and that the antenna3 of the male are organs of hearing which catch and respond to the buzzing music she pours forth for her lover's ears. A whole swarm of gnats can be brought down, indeed,
. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. 252 Flashlights on Nature J >'i Fig. A, vibrate sympathetically in unison with the notes of a tuning-fork, within the range of the sounds emitted by the female. In other words, hairs and drums just answer to one another. We may, therefore, reasonably conclude that the female sings in order to please and attract her wandering mate, and that the antenna3 of the male are organs of hearing which catch and respond to the buzzing music she pours forth for her lover's ears. A whole swarm of gnats can be brought down, indeed, by uttering the appro- priate note of the race ; you can call them somewhat as you can call male glow-worms by showing a light which they mistake for the female. A much larger and more powerful British bloodsucker than the mosquito, again, is the gadfly or horse- fly, whose life-size portrait Mr. Enock has drawn for us in No. lo. Most people know this fear- some beast well in the fields in summer. He has a trick of settling on the back of one's neck, and making a hole in one's skin with his sharp mandibles; after which he quietly sucks one's blood almost without one's perceiving him. Horses in pastures are often terribly troubled by these per- sistent creatures, which make no noise, but creep. â >«<< NO. lO.âTHE GADFLY, NATURAL SIZE. : IS. M. 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. New York : Doubleday & McClure
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