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Identifier: marvelsofinsectl00steps (find matches)
Title: Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Step, Edward, 1855-1931
Subjects: Insects Animal behavior
Publisher: New York : R. M. McBride
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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frog-hopper.1 As in the case of manyInsects that annoy us in our gardens byweakening or killing our carefully-tendedplants, we are so eager to get rid of the nuisanceby destroying it that we seldom pause to con-sider its wonderful equipment for its work, oreven to note what kind of an Insect it is.Owing to this fact, so common an Insect as this frog-hopper and its cuckoo-spit hasbeen much misunderstood. It is true that it is a destructive Insect, chiefiy obnoxiousto the gardener on account of the harm it does to his carnations and pinks, andhaving no virtues that can be urged in mitigation of the extreme penalty of garden law. The frog-hoppers—for the species are numerous—belong to the same tribe - of Insects as the cicada, the green-fly, and the plant-bugs, whose mouth-parts are fashioned into a long, sharp beak, whicli is thrust into tender shoots and employed in sucking up the sap of the plants. The general idea of the frog-hopper is that it 1 Philaenus spumarius. * Rhynchota.
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Ihuto (£. sup, F.L.S.Tin-opener. The 1)r.\gon-Moth with its .•\ dragon-moth that has just cniorged from the cocoonwith a portion of the chrysalis skin still attached to thehead. This portion includes the hard spine whose repeatedtraversal of an oval course cuts through the hard cocoonand allows the moth to escape. The photograph is fourtimes the actual size of the moth. Marvels of Insect Life. •t \

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  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Step__Edward__1855_1931
  • booksubject:Insects
  • booksubject:Animal_behavior
  • bookpublisher:New_York___R__M__McBride
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  • booksponsor:Smithsonian
  • bookleafnumber:88
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