An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects: with Plates, Band 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818 |
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... grubs or maggots " ; and the depressed larvæ of many other insects worms . The two former terms I shall sometimes use in a similar sense , rejecting the last , which ought to be confined to true vermes ; but I shall more commonly adopt ...
... grubs or maggots " ; and the depressed larvæ of many other insects worms . The two former terms I shall sometimes use in a similar sense , rejecting the last , which ought to be confined to true vermes ; but I shall more commonly adopt ...
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... grubs should get into the stomach it is difficult to say - per- haps the eggs may have been swallowed in some pre- paration of flour . But that the animal should be able to sustain the heat of this organ , so far exceeding the ...
... grubs should get into the stomach it is difficult to say - per- haps the eggs may have been swallowed in some pre- paration of flour . But that the animal should be able to sustain the heat of this organ , so far exceeding the ...
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... grubs did so much injury about seventy years ago to a poor farmer near Norwich , that the court of that city , out of compassion , allowed him 251. , and the man and his servant declared that he had gathered eighty bushels of the beetle ...
... grubs did so much injury about seventy years ago to a poor farmer near Norwich , that the court of that city , out of compassion , allowed him 251. , and the man and his servant declared that he had gathered eighty bushels of the beetle ...
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... grubs produced Elater obscurus of Mr. Marsham , which however comes so near to E. Segetis that it is doubtful whether it be more than a variety . The other species , however , of the genus have similar grubs , many of which probably ...
... grubs produced Elater obscurus of Mr. Marsham , which however comes so near to E. Segetis that it is doubtful whether it be more than a variety . The other species , however , of the genus have similar grubs , many of which probably ...
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... grub , which is sometimes very pre- ; judicial to the grass in marshy lands , and at others not less so to corn ... grubs were counted in it ! and what furnishes striking proof of the prolific powers of these insects , the next year ...
... grub , which is sometimes very pre- ; judicial to the grass in marshy lands , and at others not less so to corn ... grubs were counted in it ! and what furnishes striking proof of the prolific powers of these insects , the next year ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Acari Acarus amongst animals ant-lion ants Aphides appear attack bees beetle birds body Bombyx butterfly called caterpillar cause Cecidomyia cells Coccus Coleoptera colour combs common composed construction covered creatures deposited described destroy devour Diptera earth eggs employed Entomology Estrus feed feet female flies flowers former furnished galls Geer genus grain grubs habitations head Hist hole honey Huber Hymenoptera Ichneumon inch inhabitants injury insects kind labour larva larvæ Latr Latreille leaf leaves legs Lepidoptera letter Linn Linné locusts maggots mandibles moth Mouffet Musca nature nest object observed occasion oviposit perfect Phthiriasis plants PLATE prey probably produced pupa quadrupeds ravages Reaum Reaumur resembling scarcely seems side silk similar singular Sir Joseph Banks skin sometimes species spider sting substance swarms threads Tinea tion Trans trees tribe vegetable wasps whole wings wood young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 222 - A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Seite 424 - The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam: Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal •wood; The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Seite 223 - They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall; they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
Seite 56 - The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Seite 223 - They shall run like mighty men ; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks, neither shall one thrust another.
Seite 223 - But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savor shall come up, because he hath done great things.
Seite 222 - A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Seite 313 - But that there was in place to stir His spleen, the chirring grasshopper, The merry cricket, puling fly, The piping gnat for minstrelsy. And now, we must imagine first, The elves present, to quench his thirst, A pure seed-pearl of infant dew, Brought and...
Seite 223 - The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining...
Seite 176 - ... and, what is most remarkable and without parallel, the sexual intercourse of one original pair serves for all the generations which proceed from the female for a whole succeeding year.