Category: Science - Biology
I see already, and I see it with pleasure, that you will not content yourself with being a mere collector of insects. To possess a cabinet well stored, and to know by what name each described individual which it contains should be distinguished, will not satisfy the love that...
The associations of insects of which my last letter gave you a detail, were of a very imperfect kind, both as to their object and duration: but those which I am now to lay befor...
8. LETTER XXIII.III. The motions of insects in their perfect or _imago_ state are various, and for various purposes; and the provision of organs by which they are enabled to effect them is equa...
12. LETTER XXVII.The greater part of those surprising facts connected with the manners and economy of insects, of which the relation has occupied the preceding letters, is to be referred, I have...
4. LETTER XIX.The glory of an all-wise and omnipotent Creator, you will acknowledge, is wonderfully manifested by the varied proceedings of those social tribes of which I have lately treated:...
6. LETTER XXI.When a country is particularly open to attack, or surrounded by numerous enemies, who from cupidity or hostile feelings are disposed to annoy it, we are usually led to inquire w...
5. LETTER XX.Having given you a history sufficiently ample of the queen or female bee, I shall next add some account of the _drone_ or _male bee_; but this will not detain you long, since, "...
11. LETTER XXVI.If insects can boast of enjoying a greater variety of food than many other tribes of animals, this advantage seems at first sight more than counterbalanced in our climates, by t...
7. LETTER XXII.Amongst the means of defence to which insects have recourse, I have noticed their _motions_. These shall be the subject of the present letter. I shall not, however, confine myse...
9. LETTER XXIV.That insects, though they fill the air with a variety of sounds, have no _voice_, may seem to you a paradox, and you may be tempted to exclaim with the Roman naturalist, What, a...
1. LETTER XVI.I see already, and I see it with pleasure, that you will not content yourself with being a mere collector of insects. To possess a cabinet well stored, and to know by what name...
10. LETTER XXV.We boast of our candles, our wax-lights, and our Argand lamps, and pity our fellow-men who, ignorant of our methods of producing artificial light, are condemned to pass their ni...
3. LETTER XVIII.I shall now call your attention to such parts of the history of two other descriptions of social insects, _wasps_, namely, and _humble-bees_, as have not been related to you in...