. 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. ERA. 407 The Bee Louse or Tick may be compared to a spider fly, andis about two-thirds of a Hue long. It is pupiparous, like thesheep tick, and the very day it is hatched it sheds its skin andchanges to an oval pupa of a dark brown colour. Packard statest
. 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. ERA. 407 The Bee Louse or Tick may be compared to a spider fly, andis about two-thirds of a Hue long. It is pupiparous, like thesheep tick, and the very day it is hatched it sheds its skin andchanges to an oval pupa of a dark brown colour. Packard statesthat its habits resemble those of the flea, and that it is evidently aconnecting link between the flea and the two-winged flies. Likethe former, it lives and brings forth its young on the body of itsvictim or host, and draws its food by plunging its stout beak intothe skin of the bee ; and sometimes one of these industrious insectsmay be seen to be weighed down by as many as a hundred ofthese bloodthirsty creatures. The varieties of metamorphosis in the Dipicra are thus veryconsiderable, and it must strike every observer that the mostdecided transformations are those of the parasitic flies. This isone of the proofs that the metamorphosis has been graduallyadded to the evolution of the insect, and that it is preservative ofthe
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