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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    • OAK-APIIIS. .‘if) Ant. Their stick and straw-ca|)])ed cones scattered tlirougli the woods, must be familiar to all wood-land walkei’s. With- out, a mound of confusion, within they are a marvel of arrange- ment. The conical coping which presents itself to our eye, is indeed the roof, but may also be considei’ed as the u])per stoi'y, or perhaps several, which contain within them various chambers, one in the centre larger and loftier than the rest, with passages t)f communication, besides others which lead to the exterior of the nest. The outer entrances of these various avenues, at other times open, are carefully barricaded, not only in winter, but in rainy.weather, and also of a nifjht. Our villager’s many friends ” of the old pollard, are intended expressly, though not with reference to character, for a family of the large brown Oak-Aphis, greatest of its tribe, with a pipe or sucker of prodigious length, which, when not employed in extraction of sweet juices from leaf and branch, is earned under ^he body, passing u])wards like a tail. .lilo one rooft notice of our poor Dripping traheiler.”
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