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Identifier: littlefolksinfea00mill (find matches)
Title: Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: (Miller, Harriet (Mann) Mrs.), 1831- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Dustin, Gilman & co. Cincinnati, Ohio, Queen city publishing co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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picture — is blind and without legs, and she passes her life nearlyburied in the soft parts of the bee. The young, like the one on the right of the picture, cling, as Isaid, to the hairs of the bee, and when she goes to her nest it getson to the bee baby. It does not kill that unfortunate creature,because it is so small, but it feeds on it, and sticks to it, throughall its changes till it becomes a full grown bee. It goes throughthe regular insect changes on the back of the bee, and at last, if itis a male Stylops, it grows a pair of wings and flies off, and if it isa female it only buries its body in the body of the bee, and settlesitself for life. When the young are born, they seek other beebabies to grow upon, and the mother Stylops soon dies. IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 213 Is not that a strange and wonderful history, of such a tinyatom of a Beetle as this ? Think of the patience and carefulness ofthe man who found this dot of a creature buried in the body of acommon bee, got it out, p

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