. Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . ngthrough them, and even eating the leaden bullets.* It is related by Kirby and Spence that severalspecimens of Sirex gigas were seen to come out ofthe floor of a nursery in a gentlemans house, to thegreat discomfiture both of nurse and children. Thestory is told by Mr. Marshman on the authority ofSir Joseph Banks ; and a similar circumstance, statedby Mr. Ingpen, occurred in the house of a gentlemaaat Henley, from the joints of the floors of which * Fieuier. HARD WICKES SCIENCE-G
. Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . ngthrough them, and even eating the leaden bullets.* It is related by Kirby and Spence that severalspecimens of Sirex gigas were seen to come out ofthe floor of a nursery in a gentlemans house, to thegreat discomfiture both of nurse and children. Thestory is told by Mr. Marshman on the authority ofSir Joseph Banks ; and a similar circumstance, statedby Mr. Ingpen, occurred in the house of a gentlemaaat Henley, from the joints of the floors of which * Fieuier. HARD WICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 20: whole swarms—literally thousands—of Sirex duplex(Shuckard) emerged from innumerable holes, largeenough to admit a small pencil-case, causing greatterror to the occupants. As the house had beenbuilt about three years (the joists of British timber),there could be no doubt of the larvae having takenmore than that time in arriving at the perfect state. The larvre of the Sirices feed upon the wood offir-trees, and in Northern Europe and America aresufficiently numerous to do some amount of mischief;. F g. 132.—Sirex juvencus (female).
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