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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... walls - Average number of cells in each tier - The Common WASP as a Pensile insect - Gigantic nest - Union of three colonies - Character of the Wasp The NORWEGIAN WASP - Structure and locality of its nest - Classi- fication of the Wasps ...
... walls - Average number of cells in each tier - The Common WASP as a Pensile insect - Gigantic nest - Union of three colonies - Character of the Wasp The NORWEGIAN WASP - Structure and locality of its nest - Classi- fication of the Wasps ...
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... inhabitants , who were sup- posed to feed on the hares , rabbits , lambs , and other creatures that stumbled over the chimney top and fell into the fire below . Except , however , that the walls of these houses 2 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS .
... inhabitants , who were sup- posed to feed on the hares , rabbits , lambs , and other creatures that stumbled over the chimney top and fell into the fire below . Except , however , that the walls of these houses 2 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS .
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... walls of these houses are carved from the living rock , instead of being built up by successive series of stones or bricks , there is nothing in them which differs from the ordinary dwellings raised by builders , so that in reality they ...
... walls of these houses are carved from the living rock , instead of being built up by successive series of stones or bricks , there is nothing in them which differs from the ordinary dwellings raised by builders , so that in reality they ...
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... walls of the passages and the roof of the central chamber become quite smooth , hard and polished , so that the earth will not fall in even after the severest storm . The use of so complicated a series of cells and passages is extremely ...
... walls of the passages and the roof of the central chamber become quite smooth , hard and polished , so that the earth will not fall in even after the severest storm . The use of so complicated a series of cells and passages is extremely ...
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... walls with perfect ease , and scattering dismay among the inmates . As the ants run hither and thither , in consternation , their dwelling falling like a city shaken by an earthquake , the author of all this misery flings its slimy ...
... walls with perfect ease , and scattering dismay among the inmates . As the ants run hither and thither , in consternation , their dwelling falling like a city shaken by an earthquake , the author of all this misery flings its slimy ...
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