Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals, Classed According to Their Principle of ConstructionLongmans, Green and Company, 1866 - 632 páginas |
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... pupa which are undergoing their metamorphosis , they take up the white burdens and carry them into the upper chambers , where the heat is greater than below . Again , if there should be a heavy rain , which floods all the lower stories ...
... pupa which are undergoing their metamorphosis , they take up the white burdens and carry them into the upper chambers , where the heat is greater than below . Again , if there should be a heavy rain , which floods all the lower stories ...
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... pupa is still within it , the two ends are of very similar form . The Wasps do not break through the cover in the same manner . Sometimes they burst their way through the centre , leaving a rude and rugged opening ; some- times they ...
... pupa is still within it , the two ends are of very similar form . The Wasps do not break through the cover in the same manner . Sometimes they burst their way through the centre , leaving a rude and rugged opening ; some- times they ...
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... pupa as well as the eggs , in order that they may be warmed by the sun , without enduring the full fury of his beams . At night , if rain should come on , the vigilant workers take up their helpless charges , and convey them to hiding ...
... pupa as well as the eggs , in order that they may be warmed by the sun , without enduring the full fury of his beams . At night , if rain should come on , the vigilant workers take up their helpless charges , and convey them to hiding ...
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... pupa , it spins a silken cocoon of a globular form , and therein remains until it is about to assume its perfect condition . The pupa then bites a hole through the side of the cocoon , and projects its body half out of the aper- ture ...
... pupa , it spins a silken cocoon of a globular form , and therein remains until it is about to assume its perfect condition . The pupa then bites a hole through the side of the cocoon , and projects its body half out of the aper- ture ...
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... pupa , and that the cocoon might contain some ingredients which are dis- tasteful to the intruder , and would compel it to turn aside and choose another path . Were it not for some such protection , another insect might get into the ...
... pupa , and that the cocoon might contain some ingredients which are dis- tasteful to the intruder , and would compel it to turn aside and choose another path . Were it not for some such protection , another insect might get into the ...
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