. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. •'I 150 Flashlights on Nature 11 Hiii ' ( Jill ,11 I' ' 1 1. A/a/e ^'^^: ' i and peoples it with thousands of citizens, but also feeds and tends it with her own overworked mouth— I cannot honestly say her liands — till her maiden dauj^hters are of age to help her. Women's-rights women may be proud of the example thus set them. Nature nowhere presents us, indeed, with a finer specimen of feminine in- dustry and maternal devo- tion to duty than in the case of these courageous and pugnacious insects. But I will not now en- l
. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. •'I 150 Flashlights on Nature 11 Hiii ' ( Jill ,11 I' ' 1 1. A/a/e ^'^^: ' i and peoples it with thousands of citizens, but also feeds and tends it with her own overworked mouth— I cannot honestly say her liands — till her maiden dauj^hters are of age to help her. Women's-rights women may be proud of the example thus set them. Nature nowhere presents us, indeed, with a finer specimen of feminine in- dustry and maternal devo- tion to duty than in the case of these courageous and pugnacious insects. But I will not now en- large upon the features of these three faithful por- traits, " expressed after the life," as Elizabethan writers put it, because as we pro- ceed I shall have to call attention in greater detail to the meaning of the various parts of the body. It must suffice for the moment to direct your notice here to that very familiar ^ortion of the wasp's anatomy, the sting, or ovipositor, possessed by the females, both per-. 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. London : G. Newnes
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