The Naturalist in NicaraguaThe Minerva Group, Inc., 2002 - 344 pages The best of all natural history journals which have ever been published.--Charles Darwin, 1874. Beautifully illustrated and a pleasure to read, this classic book describes the geography, geology, ecology, flora, fauna, and native inhabitants of Nicaragua in the nineteenth century. Many of Belt's detailed and accurate observations were not confirmed until decades later--for example, the fact that certain plants have standing armies of ants that defend them. |
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... ants present a very characteristic appearance as the column proceeds homewards , each ant carrying a piece of leaf held vertically in its jaws ; and a homopterous insect has been found that faithfully resembles an ant bear- ing its ...
... ants present a very characteristic appearance as the column proceeds homewards , each ant carrying a piece of leaf held vertically in its jaws ; and a homopterous insect has been found that faithfully resembles an ant bear- ing its ...
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... ant - hills which ended in reducing the males to a very unimportant position and in limiting the number of the fully developed females ? Are we to expect that the " strong - minded " women arising among us are the forerunners of a ...
... ant - hills which ended in reducing the males to a very unimportant position and in limiting the number of the fully developed females ? Are we to expect that the " strong - minded " women arising among us are the forerunners of a ...
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... ants : their method of hunting - Ant - thrushes - They attack the nests of other ants Birds nests , how preserved from them - Reasoning powers in ants - Parallel between the mammalia and the hymenoptera - Utopia . PAGE 3 . 13 CHAPTER ...
... ants : their method of hunting - Ant - thrushes - They attack the nests of other ants Birds nests , how preserved from them - Reasoning powers in ants - Parallel between the mammalia and the hymenoptera - Utopia . PAGE 3 . 13 CHAPTER ...
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... ants - Foreign trees are very subject to their attack - Method of destroying the ants - Migration of the ant from a nest attacked - Cor- rosive sublimate causes a sort of madness amongst them- Indian plan of preventing them ascending ...
... ants - Foreign trees are very subject to their attack - Method of destroying the ants - Migration of the ant from a nest attacked - Cor- rosive sublimate causes a sort of madness amongst them- Indian plan of preventing them ascending ...
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... Ants kept as standing armies by some plants - Use of honey - secreting glands - Plant - lice , scale - insects , and leaf- hoppers furnish ants with honey , and in return are protected by the latter - Contest between wasps and ants ...
... Ants kept as standing armies by some plants - Use of honey - secreting glands - Plant - lice , scale - insects , and leaf- hoppers furnish ants with honey , and in return are protected by the latter - Contest between wasps and ants ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 3 |
CHAPTER II | 13 |
CHAPTER III | 27 |
CHAPTER IV | 37 |
CHAPTER V | 50 |
CHAPTER VI | 68 |
CHAPTER VII | 81 |
CHAPTER VIII | 98 |
CHAPTER XII | 165 |
CHAPTER XIII | 179 |
CHAPTER XIV | 191 |
CHAPTER XV | 211 |
CHAPTER XVI | 224 |
CHAPTER XVII | 236 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 250 |
CHAPTER XIX | 258 |
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The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of ... Thomas Belt No preview available - 2018 |
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