 The sting was scarcely less painful than that of a bee ; but, except it was repeated, the pain did not last more than a minute. Another sort are quite black, and their operations and manner of life are not less extraordinary. Their habitations are the...  Insect Architecture - Page 285by James Rennie - 1830 - 420 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1775 - 674 pages
...and their operations and manner of life are not lefs extraordinary. Their habitations are the infide of the b'ranches of a tree, which they contrive to excavate, by working out the pith almoft to the extremity of the flendereft twig ; the tree at the fame time flourifhing as if it had... | |
 | William Bingley - 1805 - 622 pages
...repeated, the pain did not Ia^ more than a minute. " Another sort are quite black, and their operations and manner of life are not less extraordinary. Their...time flourishing as if it had no such inmate. When we fust found the tree, we gathered some of the branches, and were scarcely less astonished than we should... | |
 | General history - 1814 - 798 pages
...black, and their operations and manner of life are not less extraordinary. Their habitations are thje inside of the branches of a tree, which they contrive...astonished than we should have been to find that we had prophaned a consecrated grove, where every tree, upon being wounded, gave signs of life ; for we were... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 550 pages
...repeated, the pain did not last more than a minute. Another sort are quite black, and their operations and manner of life are not less extraordinary. Their...astonished than we should have been to find that we had prophaned a consecrated grove, where every tree, upon being wounded, gave signs of life ; for we were... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 534 pages
...repeated, the pain did not last more than a minute. Another sort are quite black, and their operations and manner of life are not less extraordinary. Their...astonished than we should have been to find that we had prophaned a consecrated grove, where every tree, upon being wounded, gave signs of life ; for we were... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 528 pages
...repeated, the pain did not last more than a minute. • Another sort are quite black, and their operations and manner of life are not less extraordinary. Their...astonished than we should have been to find that we had prophaned a consecrated grove, where every tree, upon being wounded, gave signs of life ; for we were... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 402 pages
...repeated, the pain did not last more than a minute. " Another sort are quite black, and their operations and manner of life are not less extraordinary. Their...time flourishing, as if it had no such inmate. When « first found the tree, we gathered some of the branches, and were scarcely less astonished than we... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 636 pages
...repeated, the pain did not last more than a minute. Another sort are quite black, and their operations and manner of life are not less extraordinary. Their...we should have been to find that we had profaned a conseerated grove, where every tree, upon being wounded, gave signs of life ; for we were instantly... | |
 | Four little wise ones - 1853 - 456 pages
...pain did not last more than a minute." Another sort is quite black, and their operations and manners of life are not less extraordinary. Their habitations...at the same time flourishing as if it had no such inmates. When we first found the tree, we gathered some of the branches, and were scarcely less astonished... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1882 - 550 pages
...of Captain Cook's expedition its habits are thus described : — ' Their habitations are the insides of the branches of a tree, which they contrive to...same time flourishing as if it had no such inmate.' On breaking one of the branches the ants swarm out in legions. Some of our native species also have... | |
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