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Identifier: marvelsofinsectl00steps (find matches)
Title: Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Step, Edward, 1855-1931
Subjects: Insects Animal behavior
Publisher: New York : R. M. McBride
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Insects of the Coal Period. Dragon-flies were minierous in the period of the coal formation, and some of them were of enormous size. The one represented inthe upper part of the picture was found at Coinmentrv, in France, and measured more than two feet across its expanded wnigs. Below(centre) is an enormous may Ifv, and to left and right of it a large species of earwig and a cockroach of that period. 79 So Marvels of Insect Life.
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Fly in Amtjer. A two-winged fly with wings delicately fringed and coveredwnth hairs. It appears to have affinity with our modernwheat-midge or hessian-fly. It is shown on a scale of twenty-five times the actual size. Photo by) (W. 11 young, theyoung ofthe o i 1- beetle was already parasitic on bees, and thepresent races of gall-wasps already made galls. Fossils of the long-horned grasshoppers firstmake their appearance in the mesozoic rocks, butare more abundant in the tertiarics, where severalexisting genera are represented. A cricket has beendiscovered in the lias, but a number of specieshave been found in tertiary rocks. Dragon-flies,as already indicated, have been found in numbersin the carboniferous rocks, and many of these areremarkable for their large size—far exceeding thatof any Insects of the present time. One dragon-fly i was of such a size that, did it exist tO;^day,people might have cause for the alarm they pretendin the presence of a modern horse-stinger, so-called. Th

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  • booksubject:Insects
  • booksubject:Animal_behavior
  • bookpublisher:New_York___R__M__McBride
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  • bookleafnumber:99
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