. Insect architecture. Insects. 20 INSECT ARCHITECTUKE. When an insect first issues from the egg, it is culled by naturalists larva, and, popularly, a caterpillar, a CTUb, or a maggot. The distinction, ill popular lan- guage, seems to be, that caterpillars are produced from the eggs of moths or butterflies; grubs, from the eggs of beetles, bees, wasps, &c.; and maggots (which are widiout feet), from blow-flies, house-flies, cheese-flies, &c, though this is not very rigidly ad- hered to in common parlance. Maggots are also sometimes called worms, as in the instance of the meal-worm ; bu
. Insect architecture. Insects. 20 INSECT ARCHITECTUKE. When an insect first issues from the egg, it is culled by naturalists larva, and, popularly, a caterpillar, a CTUb, or a maggot. The distinction, ill popular lan- guage, seems to be, that caterpillars are produced from the eggs of moths or butterflies; grubs, from the eggs of beetles, bees, wasps, &c.; and maggots (which are widiout feet), from blow-flies, house-flies, cheese-flies, &c, though this is not very rigidly ad- hered to in common parlance. Maggots are also sometimes called worms, as in the instance of the meal-worm ; but the common earth-worm is not a larva, nor is it by modern naturalists ranked among insects. Larvie are remarkably small at first, but grow rapidly. The full-grown caterpillar of the goat-moth (Cossws ligniperda) is thus seventy-two thousand times heavier than when it issues from the egg; and. Larva, drubs. Caterpillars, or 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 Rennie, James, 1787-1867. London, M. A. Nattali
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