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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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years ago. Guilding reared^i, the caterpillars for severalyears, and was puzzled atgetting only male moths asthe result, never imaginingthat he had to look in thecases for the wingless female.At length a lucky accidentshowed him a female open-ing her case b\ movements(H. Bcistin. Qf i^^jy \^Qn^(\ in order to admit the male ; and so he was puton the track of the m\sterv.
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Pholu by Psyche Cases. Two cases of a Uritish species photographed on a pine-trunk in the New Iorest.cases are covered with short pieces of heather-shoots. After mating, the female fills the lower part of the pupa-skin with her very numeroussmall yellow eggs, and strips the down from her body in order to cover them. Hefound that as soon as the eggs were hatched the young caterpillars distributidthemselves and began to make cases of fragments of leaf and bark. These werecylindrical and open at each end. Whilst very small the cases are carried erectly,but they soon get too heavy, and take a horizontal i)osition. The mouth is furnished 1 CF.cetictis kirbii. Nightmare Insects. 53 with a moveable flap, wiiieh the caterpillar can closewith its mandibles and fore-legs when danger threatens,and thus closed it hangs suspended by a few threads.When the caterpillar is about to become a chrysalis thecase is attached to the tree by a number of strong threadsfrom the front end. The brown chrysalis

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  • booksubject:Insects
  • booksubject:Animal_behavior
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