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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    VIGNETTES. JANUARY. 1. THE CRICKET. INTRODUCTORY ] “ Episodes, then, they shall be called’’—Symbolic portrait of the author in his character of the Cricket, Acheta domestica, selecting a title for his lucubrations ........ 7 2. THE POINTS OF OUR HOBBY 8 “ To the end of time this will carry ns.”—Emblems of riches, rank, and the pomps and vanities of life outweighed in the balance by the author’s hobby of Entomology under the figure of a May- Fly . . . . . . . . . . . .15 3. FLIES IN WINTER, AND A FLY LEAF . . . .16 “ Try Lightness, frmid Poet.”—A leaf of the Poet’s epic failure, exposed to the critical scrutiny of a fly on its return to the author from a butter-shop ......... 23 4. THE GNAT.—A LIFE-OF BUOYANCY .... 24 “ Let us strive to keep up our buoyancy?’—The buoyant Gnat Pupa, and the winged Gnat, which half flies, half walks upon the water, figuring the light spirits which dance upon the stream of life, and are unsubmerged by the missiles of care ... 29 5. THE WOOD-ANT AND THE APHIDES .... 30 “ No one took notice of our poor dripping traveller.”—The luxuriant and well-fed Aphis, in fashionable attire and sheltered from the storm by her acorn-cup parasol, passes disdainfully by the starving but industrious Ant, seated unsheltered, naked, and solitary, on a toad-stool 35