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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.)
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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, put it into a microscope and studied it, soas to be able to give its whole history. How many dozens of thesmall creatures they must have caught and studied before theyfound out all the things that Ive told you in a few minutes! 214 LITTLE FOLKS
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WHOS THAT KNOCKING AT THE DOOR? Do you see this elegant gentleman in brown, coming to pay avisit—apparently—to his folded up and laid away relation in thetree trunk ? This is Mr. Cerambyx, and he belongs to the familyof the Longicorn Beetles, because of those two graceful hornswhich he wears on his head. The droll looking personage in thecozy little nest in the tree, is only the same fellow before he hadhis wings, in his changing time, when he ceases to be a fat worm,and is growing to be a beautiful Beetle. Perhaps you think the inside of a tree trunk a curious placefor this little fellow to live, but it is the most natural place in theworld, for hes a most famous wood borer. When he was a whiteworm he spent his whole time boring holes into trees, and ofcourse, when the time to hide away in the dark came to him, therewas no place so nice as one of the little rooms he had hollowed IN FEATHERS AND EUR, 215 out. So there he is. Do you see his long horns folded over, andhis legs most

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