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Title: The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Duncan, P. Martin (Peter Martin), 1821-1891 Blanchard, Emile, 1819-1900. Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects Conger, Paul S., former owner. DSI Abbott, Charles C., former owner. DSI
Subjects: Insects Insects Myriapoda Arachnida Crustacea
Publisher: Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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chase and soon kill. Their flight is strong,and they make a loud buzzing noise when on the wing. Some,which have elongated bodies, a short trunk, and a formidablesucker, attack horses and cattle, and sometimes man, and theypierce the skin and suck the blood. One of the commonestEuropean species, Asiliis crabronifonnis, is decorated like someof the Hyiiicnoptcra, and when it begins to suck produces thesame pain as that inflicted by a sharp lancet. It often attack.slarge animals, but usually it sucks the blood of insects, andespecially of caterpillars. This insect, which is so bloodthirsty in adult age, appears tobe a vegetarian when in the condition of a larva. The larvaiare found underground, where they gnaw roots, and eventually 39^ TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. construct a cell, in which metamorphosis takes place into thenymph. The Tabanidce, or Breeze Flies, are generally larger and more
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THE METAMORPHOhlES UF TubdlUU bovillUS. powerful than the rest of the Diptcra ; they have a large body,with a depressed head, and their sucker or proboscis is verydifferent to that of the kinds just mentioned. They have a largetrunk, which is sometimes longer than the whole body, and their THE STRAT/OMYS CHAM.ELEO. 397 piercing mandibles are not joined together, but are separated.Their wings are provided with a greater number of nervures thanany others of the order. They Hve chiefly by sucking the bloodof animals, especially of horses, and even of man ; but the malesare by no means so sanguinary as the females. These pierce theskin of their victims with great facility by means of the lancetsof their proboscis, while the former live partially from the juicesof flowers. The breeze flies are met with chiefly in woods andpastures, in the middle of summer, and during the heat of theday. When flying they make a loud buzzing noise, and that ofTahaiuis bovinns is well known to cattle and hors

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