Far above, the wingless plane circled, watching for any signs of life.
Many wingless insects--such as lice, fleas and certain earwigs and cockroaches--are placed in various orders together with winged insects to which they show evident relationships.
The custom of the country--that weighty, wingless creature born of time and of the earth--had its limbs fast twined around her.
The eggs are laid in the autumn, and hatch in the early spring, the young then appearing as wingless little creatures which in turn produce not eggs but winged or wingless Aphidæ (Fig.
The most ancient Insects would probably have most resembled these wingless larvae of the existing Orthoptera.
Cook also noticed the characteristic wingless rails of New Zealand, which he called wood hens.
One of these still survives: it is the so-called wingless Apteryx, which comes out at night, and with its long beak searches for worms.
These several considerations make me believe that the wingless condition of so many Madeira beetles is mainly due to the action of natural selection, combined probably with disuse.
I may recall in this connection that wingless flies also arose in our cultures by a single mutation.
Whether this is true or not, I will not pretend to say; but at any rate wingless insects may also arise, not through a slow process of elimination, but at a single step.
We used to be told that wingless insects occurred on desert islands because those insects that had the best developed wings had been blown out to sea.
Few readers are unacquainted with the Aphides, or plant-lice, those little wingless insects which infest our plants and herbs in myriads in summer.
The Wingless Dragons belong to the serpent tribe, with the exception that they are generally furnished with legs.
By far the largest number of the herd will be made up of the winglessagamic form--that is, of females which reproduce without mating.
The severe caryatids of the Erechtheum, the laughing blue of the sky, the white temple of the Wingless One, the Porches and the Parthenon, that wonder of the world, on them cast no spell.
The wingless females were commonly found in burrows of Dipodomys spectabilis spectabilis Merriam, the kangaroo rat.
Thaxter, 1931): On antennae of a "brown wingless blattid.
Wingless females rested on floating logs from which they would dive into the water upon the least disturbance; they remained under water for several minutes, then surfaced beneath the shelter of the log.
The wingless female was found buried in sand and dust (Burr, 1913).
The wingless adult and the nymph have similar habits.
Thaxter, 1920): On the axis of the antennae of a dark wingless and a pale winged blattid.
The wingless females and nymphs mined in bats' guano in a cavern of the Jalor caves (Annandale, 1900).
The larviform, wingless female remains near the pupal skin and is sought out by the winged male.
The last term of the series is seen in the wingless cock which left no wingless offspring in the F1 and F2 generations.
It is, on the other hand, possible that the wingless cock was a pure dominant, but that the potency of the inhibitor was so slight as not to appear in the heterozygotes or even in extracted dominants.
Thus, no trace of winglessness appeared in any of the descendants of the wingless cock.
To this resource he attributes the spread of the wingless apple-lice species.
They are remarkable in having wingless males and winged females.
The ants which form this group are readily distinguished by the differentiation of the females into winged "queens" and wingless "workers.
With wingless seeds the main distinction is found in the spermoderm, which is entire in one species only, P.
In both subsections there is a gradual evolution from a winglessnut to one with an effective wing, adnate in one subsection, adnate and articulate in the other.
In other wingless insects the want of wings has been advantageous for other reasons.
For upon isolated islands the proportion of wingless insects to those possessing wings is surprisingly large, much larger than among the insects inhabiting continents.
Asterism] Miss Willcocks' success with "The Wingless Victory" has been notable, the more so when it is remembered that it was only her second book.
He pointed to a huge white thing towering high above his head, with open beak and outstretched claw--a giant, wingless bird, its dry bones rattling with every gust.
The little island of Rodriguez, in the same geographical province, has also lost its wingless Solitaire.
In North America Professor Cope has reported a large wingless fossil bird from the Eocene strata of New Mexico.
Head folding back on the dorsum of the thorax; wingless flies parasitic on bats.
These are small wingless insects, with reduced mouth-parts, adapted for sucking; thorax apparently a single piece due to indistinct separation of its three segments: the compound eyes reduced to a single ommatidium on each side.
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