Pa Is Sent to a Hospital to Recuperate--The Bad Boy Discourages Other Boys from Running Away with the Circus--He Makes Them Water the Camels, Curry the Hyenas and Put Insect Powder on the Buffaloes.
Not only does the "accessory chromosome" in this insect form a resting nucleus independent, and obviously physiologically differentiated from that formed from the remaining chromosomes (fig.
A director of agriculture was appointed in 1896, and leaflets are issued pointing out improvements within the means of the villager, and how to deal with plant diseases and insect pests.
Over the door of his country residence in the days of his profusion he caused the image of a luminous insectto be depicted, and he engraved its semblance on his seal.
Going to the spot the delighted student saw that in place of one there were now four, the grateful insect having meanwhile summoned others to his cause.
The Story of Lao Ting and the Luminous Insect It is of Lao Ting that the saying has arisen, "He who can grasp Opportunity as she slips by does not need a lucky dream.
But no insect had ever emitted quite such a sound in my hearing.
There is never any frost, and as there are no seriousinsect pests which attack the fruit the crop is a very fine one.
In England, Miss Ormerod has distinguished herself by her observations on insect life.
Nature, as every one will tell you who has seen dissected an insect under the microscope, is as grand and graceful in her smallest as in her largest forms.
I don't perceive an insect on the wall of the hostile work.
Normally this littleinsect has a red eye, but white eyed individuals are known to occur as rare sports.
If the presence of this insect is suspected, it is desirable to guard against the risk of admixture of {189} foreign pollen by selecting for pollinating purposes a flower which has not quite opened.
I allude, of course, to the experiments conducted a few years ago by Mr. Crosse, which seemed to result in the production of a heretofore unknown species of insect in considerable numbers.
The appearance of the boll weevil, an insect which attacks the cotton boll, has materially changed the character of agriculture in areas of cotton culture in the South.
Scientists are now looking for some insect enemy of the boll weevil that will restore the equilibrium.
But the blind mole, with its perfect organization and ceaseless activity, limited to the alternation of insect larvae and hunger, makes the disproportion of the means to the end apparent.
Occasionally however, a great insectnearly as large as one's hand, flies by exhibiting the most vivid greens, reds, and blues.
Both in the country and in the metropolis people took the insect of the Everlasting World and, placing it in a pure place, with song and dance invoked happiness.
This insect is usually bred on orange trees, and sometimes on the hosoki.
Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?
There was a smile of irony in his eyes as their glances met; but it was at least better that he should have disregarded her as one of an insect swarm who had no individual physiognomy.
Thanks to Mrs. Ladybug--and some of her relations--there was scarcely an insect left on the leaves.
SMITH A delightful and unusual series of bird and insect stories for boys and girls from three to eight years old, or thereabouts.
Abbott rambles is clearly the haunt of fowl and fish, of animal and insect life; and it is of the habits and nature of these that he discourses pleasantly in this book.
Being one day much tormented by a hornet which settled on his neck, he nevertheless refused to take it off, lest in seeking to catch the insect he should break himself; but he still complained woefully of the sting.
The reader will be pleased to guess the name of that insufferable insect which the Spaniards denominate Chinche, and with the English equivalent of which I am unwilling to offend his eyes.
You are over the pit of hell in Gods hand very much as one holds a spider or some loathsome Insect over the fire & 'tis nothing but for God to let you go & you fall in.
They live in holes bored in the ground, and provided with a trapdoor contrivance which is closed when the insect is at home.
Unless the flea is unattached, one must either wait until the insect comes away of its own free will, or remove it with a red-hot needle in order to destroy the eggs.
The insect sucks blood and grows as it gorges itself, producing a white swelling of the skin in the center of which is seen a black spot, the front part of the flea.
As the presence of tick is far from agreeable, the insect may often be removed by painting it with turpentine, which either kills it or causes the claws to be relaxed; in either case the tick loosens its hold and drops to the ground.
The pain and swelling are produced by the poison of the insect which leaves the poison bag at the base of the barb at the instant that the person is stung.
One of our northern species sucks in silent darkness for seventeen years, and then, for a single summer, breaks all American long-distance records for insect voices.
Before night these kitchen middens were an inch or two deep and nearly a foot in length, composed, literally, of thousands of skins, wings, and insect armor.
To kill an insect or a great bird would require only a few minutes, and the death of a jaguar or a tapir would mean only a few more.
And now the trogon fairly fell off the branch, seizing the insect almost before the tone died away.
To these phenomena I soon became re-accustomed, and could watch a bird or outwit an insect in the face of a foreglow and silent burst of flame that shamed all the barrages ever laid down.
But I did not suspect the vampire or thug-like character of these guests--tolerated where any other insect would have been torn to pieces at once.
I chanced to see a large bee-like insect rising through the branches, and following back along its path, I suddenly perceived the rarest of sights--an Atta nest entrance boiling with the excitement of a flight of winged kings and queens.
Now, on a smaller scale, but still within the realm of insect life, all was changed--the plant was safe once more and no caterpillars would emerge.
I did not know even the genus of this tropical form; but insect taxonomists have been particularly happy in their given names--I recalled Hydrobates, Aquarius, and remigis.
The Attas had very few insect guests, but this cockroach is one which had made himself perfectly at home.
In the shade of its three leaves the insect paused, and at once began scraping at the sand with her jaws.
It may be added that Hermann Muller has shown good grounds for believing that mutual specialisation of this kind is beneficial both to insect and plant.
Contributions to anInsect Fauna of the Amazon Valley.
Moreover, Forbes has given evidence to show that such an insect does exist in Madagascar ("Nature," VIII.
You will then say whether the insect can fly well through the air.
For the last five or six years I have been paying considerable attention to the insect fauna of the U.
Probably a paper by Bates entitled "Contributions to an Insect Fauna of the Amazon Valley" ("Trans.
But the best proofs are furnished by those of ten-cited cases in which the insect bears a deceptive resemblance to another object.
I would like to find an insect that makes its home at the pole itself.
Why, the flea, the little insect I caught in the shaggy fur of the volcano monster?
But glow-worms burn not long: and in the midst of some calm intricate thought, at some imminent comma, the insect often expired, and Midni groped for a meaning.
He read in the woods by glow-worm light; insect in hand, tracing over his pages, line by line.
