 ... well calculated for burrowing. From each of these eggs proceeds, after a short time, a whitish worm with six legs, a red head, and strong claws, which is destined to live in the earth under that form for four years, and there undergoes various changes...  The Floral World and Garden Guide - Seite 154herausgegeben von - 1862Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Bingley - 1803 - 624 Seiten
...time, a whitish worm with six -legs, a red head and strong claws, and about an •inch and a half long, which is destined to live in the earth under that form for four years, and there undergo various changes of its skin, until it assumes its pupa form. It subsists, during its subterraneous... | |
 | 1824 - 452 Seiten
...whose fore-legs are very short, and well calculated for burrowing. From each of these eggs proceeds, after a short time, a whitish worm with six legs,...various changes of its skin, until it assumes its chrysalid form. These creatures, sometimes in immense numbers, work between the turf and the soil in... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 462 Seiten
...beetle, scarabseus melolontha, deposits eggs in the ground by burrowing. From each of these proceeds, after a short time, a whitish worm with six legs,...various changes of its skin, until it assumes its chrysalid form. These creatures, sometimes in immense numbers, work between the turf and the soil in... | |
 | 1829 - 494 Seiten
...time, a whitish worm with six legs, a red head, and strong claws, and about an inch and a half long, which is destined to live in the earth under that form for four years, and there to undergo various changes of its skin, until it assumes its chrysalid form. It subsists, during its... | |
 | 1837 - 530 Seiten
...the soil. These hatch, and produce each a pale caterpillar, which, as London's Encyclopaedia says, is "destined to live in the earth, under .that form, for four years r and there undergoes various changes of its skin." During the period of these changes, the form varies,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 864 Seiten
...reusmelolontha.depcsitseais in the ground by burrowing. From each of these proceeds, after a short time, a whitish wcrm with six legs, a red head, and strong claws, which...various changes of its skin, until it assumes its chrysalid form These creatures, sometimes in immense numbers! work between the turf and the soil in... | |
 | William Keane (gardener.) - 1861 - 252 Seiten
...forelegs are very short, and wellcalculated for burrowing in the ground. From each of these eggs proceeds, after a short time, a whitish worm with six legs,...various changes of its skin, until it assumes its chrysalid form. The larvae having continued four years in the ground are now about to undergo their... | |
 | William Bingley - 1871 - 1056 Seiten
...time, a whitish worm with six legs, a red head, and strong claws, and about an inch and a half long, which is destined to live in the earth under that form for four years, and there to undergo various changes of its skin, until it assumes its chrysalid form. It subsists, during its... | |
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