. In nature's workshop [microform]. Sciences de la vie; Natural history; Life sciences; Sciences naturelles. 194 In Nature's Workshop il!»' bodily in his legs and carries it off to store his own nursery, exactly as evil spirits carry off wicked souls in old Italian pictures. Megastizus is a burrower, and No. 17 shows in a lurid light one of his under- ground tunnels, with his own ugly larva engaged in devouring the dead cicada. These burrows them-. NO. 14.—WINGS FULLY EXPANDED. selves are singular examples of insect architecture, Ah Baba caves of tiny robbers: they are represented in ground pl
. In nature's workshop [microform]. Sciences de la vie; Natural history; Life sciences; Sciences naturelles. 194 In Nature's Workshop il!»' bodily in his legs and carries it off to store his own nursery, exactly as evil spirits carry off wicked souls in old Italian pictures. Megastizus is a burrower, and No. 17 shows in a lurid light one of his under- ground tunnels, with his own ugly larva engaged in devouring the dead cicada. These burrows them-. NO. 14.—WINGS FULLY EXPANDED. selves are singular examples of insect architecture, Ah Baba caves of tiny robbers: they are represented in ground plan in No. 18, a, a being in each case the door or entrance, and d, d, b the little round chambers stored with cicadas in which the eggs are laid and the larvae developed. The late Professor C. V. Riley, the official entomologist of the United. 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. Toronto : W. Briggs
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