. Animal communities in temperate America : as illustrated in the Chicago region; a study in animal ecology. Animal ecology; Zoology -- Illinois Chicago. PRAIRIE ANIMALS III. General Discussion 295 One of the striking peculiarities of the prairie formation is the almost complete cessation of life activities of all the smaller animals in winter. In this respect the prairie animals follow the plants. In spring we find chiefly the insignificant seedling that has sprouted from bulb or seed, and the nymph that has just hatched from the egg. As the season advances the plants become adult, the majori
. Animal communities in temperate America : as illustrated in the Chicago region; a study in animal ecology. Animal ecology; Zoology -- Illinois Chicago. PRAIRIE ANIMALS III. General Discussion 295 One of the striking peculiarities of the prairie formation is the almost complete cessation of life activities of all the smaller animals in winter. In this respect the prairie animals follow the plants. In spring we find chiefly the insignificant seedling that has sprouted from bulb or seed, and the nymph that has just hatched from the egg. As the season advances the plants become adult, the majority of these reaching maturity with the animals in Fig. 306.—The dock curculio (Lixus concavus Say): a, adult; b, egg; c, d, newly hatched and full-grown larva; e, pupa; /, tip of pupa from above; about twice natural size (from Forbes after Chittenden, Div. Ent., Dept. Agr.). The low prairie is of interest because of its relation to the eastern forest region. Many if not most of the low prairie forms probably originally occurred in the marshes of the eastern forest region and the river-bottom swales of the prairie and great plains. Many of them (such as place their eggs into plants) are quite independent of the ground, and therefore are most likely to survive under conditions of cultivation where mesophytic plants are favored and the cultivation of the soil does not interfere with their 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 Shelford, Victor E. (Victor Ernest), b. 1877; Geographic Society of Chicago. Chicago, Ill. : Published for the Geographic Society of Chicago by the University of Chicago Press
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