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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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gly. Hes a very pretty fellow, too ; his dress is of brilliant green.looking in some lights, blue and gold, and his shape is slender andelegant. Unlike most of these little creatures, the Musk Beetlecan make a noise, from which he is sometimes called a Squeaker.The sound is not made with the mouth, but by jerking the head upand down, and thus rubbing one part of his hard shelly coveringagainst another. Some of this Longicorn family have perfectly monstroushorns — five or six times as long as they are — and how they canget about with these things to carry, and not break them off, Icant see. In the Malay Islands, an English naturalist—Mr. Wallace —found more than a hundred varieties of the long horned gentry;some very beautiful, and all strange creatures. 216 LITTLE FOLKS A FEW MORE BEETLES. Here is the picture of the Stag Beetle. The first curled upindividual in the left lower corner, is Mr. Stag Beetle as he appearsin his grub state. The next uncomfortable looking bundle of an
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object, is the same personage when he has come to his full growthas a grub, and become what is called a pupa—or chrysalis. Bothof these are represented as being in the ground, because they dopass their lives in seclusion, though naturalists of late, affirm thatthis particular family always lives in the wood of trees. Outside,at the top of the picture, you see Mr. Stag Beetle himself, with histremendous horns, and his modest wife without any. Im sureshe needs none. One such pair of horns must be enough for anyone family. IN FEA THERS AND FUR. 217 To begin with the grub — since that is the beginning of hislife ! The Stag Beetle Grub is a fat white worm, with six legs, tobe sure, but so feeble and weak that it is said he cannot get abouton them at all. He lives in trees, and eats the wood which he bitesoff with his strong teeth. He prefers the oak tree, but will accepta home in a willow, though some naturalists say that he neveracquires so great a size when living in the willow. In t

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