Half-hours in the Green Lanes: a Book for a Country StrollDavid Bogue, 1879 - 328 pages |
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... caterpillar , chrysalis , and imago be undergone by three distinct creatures , instead of in the lifetime of one , and we should have a strong analogy in ( 143 ) CHAPTER V THE BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS OF THE GREEN LANES.
... caterpillar , chrysalis , and imago be undergone by three distinct creatures , instead of in the lifetime of one , and we should have a strong analogy in ( 143 ) CHAPTER V THE BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS OF THE GREEN LANES.
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... caterpillar of a butterfly when it is only a few days old , and before it has attained anything like the bulk of body which its voracious appetite presently obtains for it . Let any one who wishes to trace the gradual perfection of the ...
... caterpillar of a butterfly when it is only a few days old , and before it has attained anything like the bulk of body which its voracious appetite presently obtains for it . Let any one who wishes to trace the gradual perfection of the ...
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... caterpillars the power of varying their ex- ternal colour to those of the plants on which they feed , but even the fully developed insect is similarly protected . Many of those little moths , the Tineidæ , when settled on a leaf , look ...
... caterpillars the power of varying their ex- ternal colour to those of the plants on which they feed , but even the fully developed insect is similarly protected . Many of those little moths , the Tineidæ , when settled on a leaf , look ...
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... caterpillar of this insect feeds on the blackthorn and willow , and spins a long , blackish , and coarse cocoon among the lower twigs , Fig . 112 . The Lappet Moth at rest . GWR the moth itself generally appearing in June . It has been ...
... caterpillar of this insect feeds on the blackthorn and willow , and spins a long , blackish , and coarse cocoon among the lower twigs , Fig . 112 . The Lappet Moth at rest . GWR the moth itself generally appearing in June . It has been ...
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John Ellor Taylor. examples showing the operation of the general law . Even the caterpillars take advantage of it , and by their minute resemblance to twigs and thorns are enabled to elude their enemies . Few entomologists have ...
John Ellor Taylor. examples showing the operation of the general law . Even the caterpillars take advantage of it , and by their minute resemblance to twigs and thorns are enabled to elude their enemies . Few entomologists have ...
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