An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects: with Plates, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823 |
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An Introduction to Entomology: Or, Elements of the Natural History of ... William Kirby,William Spence No preview available - 2015 |
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abdomen amongst animals antennæ ants anus Aphides appear attack bees beetle body Bombyx caterpillar claws cocoon cold Coleoptera combs common covered creatures drones eggs elytra emit enemies entomologist fact feed feet females flies fluid former formicary Fulgora furnished Geer genus ground grub habitation head Hist hive hive-bee honey Huber humble-bees hybernation Hymenoptera Ibid inhabitants insects instance instinct kind labours larva larvæ Latr latter legs Lepidoptera light male male eggs mandibles means moth motion move nervures nest neuters noise observed occasion organs Orthoptera perfect posterior probably produced prolegs propolis pupa pupæ queen reason Reaum Reaumur remarkable resembling royal cells says Schirach seems seen segments side singular societies sometimes soon sound species spiders substance surface swarm thread tibiæ tion torpidity Trans trees tribe usually walk wasps winglets wings winter workers young brood
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Page 524 - Hark! the bee winds her small but mellow horn,' Blithe to salute the sunny smile of morn. O'er thymy downs she bends her busy course. And many a stream allures her to its source. Tis noon, 'tis night. That eye so finely wrought, Beyond the search of sense, the soar of thought, Now vainly asks the scenes she left behind; Its orb so full, its vision so confin'd!
Page 7 - Thin glittering textures of the filmy dew, Dipt in the richest tincture of the skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes ; While every beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings.
Page 384 - That lies in old Wood like a Hare in her Form ; With Teeth or with Claws it will bite or will scratch, And Chambermaids christen this Worm a Death-Watch : 20 Because like a Watch it always cries Click: Then Woe be to those in the House who are sick: For, as sure as a Gun they will give up the Ghost If the Maggot cries Click when it scratches the Post.
Page 130 - zealous for the good of the community, a defender of the public rights, enjoying an immunity from the stimulus of sexual appetite and the pains of parturition; laborious, industrious, patient, ingenious, skilful; incessantly engaged in the nurture of the young, in collecting honey and pollen, in elaborating wax, in constructing cells and the like! — paying the most respectful and assiduous attention to objects which, had its ovaries been developed, it would have hated and pursued with the most...
Page 6 - The impending woe sat heavy on his breast. He summons straight his denizens of air; The lucid squadrons round the sails repair: Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath. Some to the sun their insect wings unfold, Waft on the breeze, or sink in clouds of gold; 60 Transparent forms, too fine for mortal sight, Their fluid bodies half dissolved in light.
Page 523 - ... sense, the soar of thought, Now vainly asks the scenes she left behind; Its orb so full, its vision so confined! Who guides the patient pilgrim to her cell ? Who bids her soul with conscious triumph swell ? With conscious truth retrace the mazy clue Of varied scents, that charmed her as she flew ? Hail, MEMORY, hail! thy universal reign Guards the least link of Being's glorious chain.
Page 384 - Because like a watch it always cries click ; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick : For, as sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click when it scratches the post. But a kettle of scalding hot water injected Infallibly cures the timber affected : The omen is broken, the danger is over ; The maggot will die, and the sick will recover.
Page 208 - ... and at once disarm them of their weapons, and suck their bodies for the sake of their honey-bags. Sometimes he would fill his bosom between his shirt and his skin with a number of these captives; and sometimes would confine them in bottles. He was a very...
Page 174 - Delight me with thy wandering hum, And rouse me from my musing hour ; Oh ! try no more those tedious fields, Come taste the sweets my garden yields : The treasures of each blooming mine, The bud, the blossom, — all are thine.
Page 412 - She beckoned, and descended, and drew out, From underneath her vest, a cage, or net It rather might be called, so fine the twigs Which knit it, where, confined, two fire-flies gave Their lustre. By that light did Madoc first Behold the features of his lovely guide ; And through the entrance of the cavern gloom, He followed in full trust.