. 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. which is rather narrower than the whole looks something like a long sleeve with folds upon pieces of leaf are not sewn or attached to each other, butthey are fitted together so perfectly that they retain their shapeeven when they become
. 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. which is rather narrower than the whole looks something like a long sleeve with folds upon pieces of leaf are not sewn or attached to each other, butthey are fitted together so perfectly that they retain their shapeeven when they become dry. This pretty funnel-shaped cell, offrom a quarter to a third of an inch long, is destined to be theresidence of a larva of the leaf cutter, for it proceeds to makeup a cake of honey and pollen, places it inside, and then laysan Q^^. Nothing more is required but to wall up the nest, andthe Mcgacliile goes off to the rose bushes again, where it snips offa circular piece of leaf, of a diameter exactly fitting the opening ;it pushes this leaf so that its sides fit into the walls of the funnel-shaped roll of leaves which compose the lining of the cell, andendeavours to close it completely. But this intelligent littleworker is not satisfied, for it would appear to be aware thatthe honey which she has laid up with the egg might flow out. =s~ TI r-gr ? ,>^
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