. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others. d of seven pieces. They are provided with two small tube-like projections, which stick up from the end of the abdomen,and which communicate with each other, and with a gland thatsecretes the sugary liquor of which the ants are so fond, andwhich is said by
. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others. d of seven pieces. They are provided with two small tube-like projections, which stick up from the end of the abdomen,and which communicate with each other, and with a gland thatsecretes the sugary liquor of which the ants are so fond, andwhich is said by some naturalists to nourish the newly-bornAphida;. There is no doubt about the ants milking the plantlice by tapping them on the end of the tubes, but it is a matterof doubt whether the young Aphidce have the sense or the powerto avail themselves of what certainly might be very nourishingto them. The males of the plant lice have large wings, butalmost all the females are deficient in these organs of flight. It was formerly a great puzzle to understand or toaccount for the rapid increase of plant lice, and the questionhas been carefully entertained by some of the most distinguished THE AIHROPHORA SPUATARIA. 379 naturalists and physiologists of the world. It was evident toall, and in fact everybody can observe it, that perfect male and. METAMORPHOSES OF THE CUCKOO siir. {Apliropliora spuntaria.) female Aphidic, all with wings, fly about in great quantities inthe autumn season. A little care will prove that the eggs arelaid at this time on plants, and that they are covered up witha sort of mucus which the female places over them to protect ;8o TRAXSFORMA r/OXS OF JXSECTS. them. Now in the spring these eggs are hatched, but they donot produce caterpillars or grubs, but imperfect Aphida, whichhave no wings, and which are all females. So far as is known,all the males die in the autumn, and the females also as soonas they have laid their eggs, so that in the early spring thereare n
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