. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. Those Hou'kmd Earwigs 133 wing-tip, which will not close of its own mere motion. Then, as you can observe in No. 13, she rapidly clips the pincers together, thus tucking in the last bit of the wing much as a hand might do it. After that, she straightens her body again, as in No. 14, and is ready to replace the folded wings be- hind the hard wing-covers. Of course, all this process, which we have repre- sented here in detail in its vari- ous stages, only occupies in life a few brief se- conds; so per- fect and so au- tomat
. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. Those Hou'kmd Earwigs 133 wing-tip, which will not close of its own mere motion. Then, as you can observe in No. 13, she rapidly clips the pincers together, thus tucking in the last bit of the wing much as a hand might do it. After that, she straightens her body again, as in No. 14, and is ready to replace the folded wings be- hind the hard wing-covers. Of course, all this process, which we have repre- sented here in detail in its vari- ous stages, only occupies in life a few brief se- conds; so per- fect and so au- tomatic is the mechanism that the earwig man- ages it all as readily as a lady closes up her fan and reopens it. In No. 15, our earwig i.; shown in the act of replacing the folded wings over the abdomen ; while the hard, horny wing-case is beginning to cover them. In No. 16 she has folded them quite back, but has lifted the wing-cases again, as if to fly off once more ; this illustration exhibits the. NO. 8.~A SECOND LATEK. 'I â ;. ' 't '5. 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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