Ants, Bees, and Wasps: A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social HymenopteraAppleton, 1913 - 448 pagini |
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... A tame wasp - Power of distinguishing colours - Wasps less guided by colour than bees - Industry of wasps - A day's work- Directness of flight of wasps • PAGH 311 APPENDICES LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . Fig . 1. Lasius niger . 2 CONTENTS .
... A tame wasp - Power of distinguishing colours - Wasps less guided by colour than bees - Industry of wasps - A day's work- Directness of flight of wasps • PAGH 311 APPENDICES LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . Fig . 1. Lasius niger . 2 CONTENTS .
Pagina 7
... less than a month . In other cases the period is much longer . In certain species , Lasius flavus , for instance , some of the larvæ live through the winter . When full grown they turn into pupæ ( Pl . V. fig . 4 ) , sometimes naked ...
... less than a month . In other cases the period is much longer . In certain species , Lasius flavus , for instance , some of the larvæ live through the winter . When full grown they turn into pupæ ( Pl . V. fig . 4 ) , sometimes naked ...
Pagina 8
... less rapidly developed , no food is taken , and there is no addition to the size or weight . The imago or perfect insect again takes food , but does not grow . The ant , like all the insects above named , is as large when it emerges ...
... less rapidly developed , no food is taken , and there is no addition to the size or weight . The imago or perfect insect again takes food , but does not grow . The ant , like all the insects above named , is as large when it emerges ...
Pagina 16
... less military than others . Myr- mecina Latreillii , for instance , never attack , and scarcely even defend themselves . Their skin is very hard , and they roll themselves into a ball , not defend- ing themselves even if their nest is ...
... less military than others . Myr- mecina Latreillii , for instance , never attack , and scarcely even defend themselves . Their skin is very hard , and they roll themselves into a ball , not defend- ing themselves even if their nest is ...
Pagina 19
... less in size . The amount of difference , however , depends upon the species . In Lasius niger , the small brown garden ant , the workers are , for instance , much more uniform than in the little yellow meadow ant , or in Atta barbara ...
... less in size . The amount of difference , however , depends upon the species . In Lasius niger , the small brown garden ant , the workers are , for instance , much more uniform than in the little yellow meadow ant , or in Atta barbara ...
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Ants, Bees, and Wasps: A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social ... Sir John Lubbock Vizualizare completă - 1884 |
Ants, Bees, and Wasps: A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social ... Sir John Lubbock Vizualizare completă - 1902 |
Ants, Bees, and Wasps: A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social ... Sir John Lubbock Vizualizare completă - 1894 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
૪ ૪ ૪ A.M. ditto abdomen Anergates antennæ aphides attacked August bees bisulphide of carbon blue paper carried cleaned compound eyes coxæ dragged Eciton eggs experiment feeding flew flowers following day Forel Formica fusca Formica rufa four Fourmis glass and bisulphide green paper half hive honey on blue honey on green hour inches insects instance journeys and brought larvæ Lasius flavus Lasius niger legs less males minutes moved Myrmica ruginodis nest of Formica nest of Lasius observations ocelli October once orange P.M. the friend paper bridge placed Polyergus pupa pupæ queen recognise result returned right pin round sanguinea seemed September slips of glass soon species specimens stranger Strongylognathus Tetramorium thorax three ants took a larva took no notice transposed the colours tried vermilion violet glass visits wasp watched window workers young دو وو وو
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Pagina 79 - On the 17th of June, 1804, whilst walking in the environs of Geneva, between four and five in the evening, I observed close at my feet, traversing the road, a legion of rufescent ants. They moved in a body with considerable rapidity, and occupied a space of from eight to ten inches in length by three or four in breadth. In a few minutes they quitted the road, passed a thick hedge, and entered a pasture ground where I followed them.