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共 37 段- So much as the world has suffered from these animals[20], it
- "The history of insects that live in solitude consists of th
- Full of interesting traits as are the history and economy of
- If you scatter the ruins of an ant's nest in your apartment,
- There are two species of ants which engage in these excursio
- When the population exceeds the produce of a country, or its
- I. _Species._ He describes five species of English ants; viz
- The population of a humble-bees nest may be divided into fou
- In spite of all these powerful probabilities to the contrary
- Did the old queen of the hive remain in it till the young on
- Apiarists tell us that, in this country, the best season for
- Various have been the conjectures of naturalists, even in ve
- These insects, especially when laden and returning to their
- In Mungo Park's last mission to Africa, he was much annoyed
- [233] Huber, ii. 260.
- We often wonder how the cheese-mite (_Acarus Siro_) is at ha
- I shall next beg your attention to those insects that emit t
- Insects in general are remarkable for their cleanliness;--ho
- This universal movement and action of these restless little
- I come now to _pedate_ larvæ, or those that move by means of
- The insects of the _Trichoptera_ order, or case-worm flies a
- Many insects, that jump by means of their posterior legs, ha
- Amongst the homopterous _Hemiptera_, _Chermes_ and many of t
- After the foregoing marvellous detail of the aërial excursio
- The flight of the Tipularian genera is very various. Sometim
- [501] _Amœn. Acad._ i. 549. The Gecko, probably, is not the
- Authors were formerly not agreed concerning the insect from
- I shall conclude this diatribe upon the noises of insects, w
- Pietro Martire tells us that the Cucuij serve the natives of
- [710] Some experiments made by my friend the Rev. R. Sheppar
- All insects, however, do not undergo this degree of torpidit
- That the torpidity of insects, as well as of other hybernati
- I here say nothing of that supposed connexion of the instinc
- But their foresight does not stop here. When they have suffi
- In their out-of-door operations several distinct instincts a
- As another instance of these mixed actions in which both rea
- [823] Kalm's _Travels in North America_, i. 239.