Insect Variety, Its Propagation and Distribution: Treating of the Odours, Dances, Colours, and Music in All Grasshoppers, Cicadæ, and Moths; Beetles, ... And Exhibiting the Bearing of the Scien - Hardcover

Swinton, Archibald Henry

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ISBN 10: 0484914332 ISBN 13: 9780484914338

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2017

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Excerpt from Insect Variety, Its Propagation and Distribution: Treating of the Odours, Dances, Colours, and Music in All Grasshoppers, Cicadæ, and Moths; Beetles, Leaf-Insects, Bees, and Butterflies; Bugs, Flies, and Ephemeræ; And Exhibiting the Bearing of the Science of Entomology on Geology

Fig. 5. The courtship of two flies (empts ignota) on a crow's-foot, exemplify ing communication by the tarsi of the feet.

Fig. 6. Explains the manner in which certain small beetles of the tribe Geadephaga and genera Brachinus are asserted to arrest the onset of a larger predacious beetle, by exploding a volatile secretion from the anus.

Fig. 7. A Bumble Bee defending itself from the attacks of a House Spider.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0484914332
• ISBN 13: 9780484914338
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