Episodes of insect life / by Acheta Domestica, [pseud.] ;edited and revised by J.G. Wood.

  • Budgen, L. M., Miss.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Episodes of insect life / by Acheta Domestica, [pseud.] ;edited and revised by J.G. Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for the sake of tlie salts vvhicli they contain, and which tliey imbibe, it is further concluded, for a like purpose to that wherewith w^e, lovers in general of sweets, are accustomed to take spring-doses of saline and other unpalatable flavours. With regard to the })articular organ whereby the taste of Insects is chiefly exercised, both analogy and observation point to the mouth and tongue. In Dragon-flies, Grasshoppers, and Crickets, this little member is rounded, and somewhat resembling that of quadrupeds ; in others, its shape is curiously varied; in the Wasp, forked like a serpent’s; in Saw-flies, triply divided ; in Bees, long and tubular; in Bugs, awl-shaped and sharp; but in all, as has been proved by recent discovery, the organs of taste and digestion are moistened and kej)t in order by a due su])])ly of saliva from pipes opening sometimes into the mouth, sometimes into the gullet, and sometimes into the stomach, as may be most suitable for the purposes of digestion, and according to the greater or less solidity of food. “(Cfic paf^ion^ arc eppcc^^cb Dp ^ounD^.”
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