Introduction to
An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 1 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects
作者：Kirby, William, 1759-1850; Spence, William, 1783-1860
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共 38 段- XV. Habitations of Insects continued.
- The lord of the creation plumes himself upon his powers of i
- But could an entomological observer even ascertain the speci
- But this is the smallest half of the value of their pursuit.
- [54] P. 192.
- Nor does this explanation, though it precludes the idea of t
- Dr. Willan, in one case of _Prurigo senilis_, observed a num
- To this genus belongs an insect, abundant in the West Indies
- But these evils are of small account compared with what othe
- In these cases the injury is the consequence of irritation p
- [163] Bartram's _Travels_, 383.
- In order rightly to ascertain what insect this really was, w
- Let us begin with the produce of our _fields_.--Bread is cal
- If the beer-drinker be thus interested in the history of the
- But of all our fruits none is so useful and important as the
- This plan of decoying destructive animals from our crops by
- From 1778 to 1780 the empire of Marocco was terribly devasta
- Next to our garments our houses and buildings, which shelter
- [452] This account of the _Termites_ is chiefly taken from S
- From none of the imparasitic insectivorous larvæ do we deriv
- So much for the insect benefactors to whom it is given in ch
- What may be the precise use of this faculty is not so appare
- In the next order of insects, the _Orthoptera_, the gryllus,
- Cochineal, the _Coccus Cacti_, is doubtless the most valuabl
- Whether it will ever be expedient to attempt the breeding of
- The general economy of these insects is similar. Having firs
- It is De Geer also that we have to thank for a series of int
- Though such is the love of wasps for their young, that if th
- Though insects, generally considered, have thus a much more
- [719] In the controversy between the commentators on Shakesp
- Both these difficulties would be removed by adopting the exp
- When all obstacles are overcome, and the pit is finished, it
- The mother bee first excavates a cylindrical hole eight or t
- Other larvæ construct their habitations wholly of silk. Of t
- The habitation of _Argyroneta aquatica_, the other spider to
- Besides the saving of wax effected by the form of the cells,
- These nests, which do not exceed six or eight inches in diam
- M. L'Huillier, professor of Geneva, values the economy of th