After remaining some days in this state, they emerge as perfect insects. In many cases, however, they would perish in the attempt, if they were not assisted ; and it is very pretty to see the older ants helping them to extricate themselves, carefully... Scientific Lectures - Page 46by Sir John Lubbock - 1890 - 228 pagesFull view - About this book
| Religion - 1883 - 528 pages
...just as the human infant would perish if neglected. ' It is very pretty,' Sir John Lubbock says, ' to see the older ants helping them to extricate themselves,...carefully unfolding their legs, and smoothing out the wings with truly feminine tenderness and delicacy.'1 Of the insects thus developed the males and... | |
| Science - 1877 - 822 pages
...they remind one of a school divided into five or six classes. When full grown they turn into pupse, sometimes naked, sometimes covered with a silken cocoon,...themselves, carefully unfolding their legs and smoothing out the wings, with truly feminine tenderness and delicacy. Under ordinary circumstances an ants' nest,... | |
| Great Britain - 1877 - 938 pages
...pupae, sometimes naked, sometimes covered with a silken cocoon, constituting the so-called "ant eggs." After remaining some days in this state, they emerge...not assisted, and it is very pretty to see the older dfhts helping them to extricate themselves, carefully unfolding their legs and smoothing out the wings,... | |
| Royal institution of Great Britain - 1879 - 724 pages
...very often sorted according to age. It is sometimes very curious in my nests to see them divided into groups according to size, so that they remind one...themselves, carefully unfolding their legs and smoothing out the wings, with truly feminine tenderness and delicacy. Under ordinary circumstances an ants' nest,... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1879 - 696 pages
...very often sorted according to age. It is sometimes very curious in my nests to see them divided into groups according to size, so that they remind one...themselves, carefully unfolding their legs and smoothing out the wings, with truly feminine tenderness and delicacy. Under ordinary circumstances an ants' nest,... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1879 - 698 pages
...emerge as perfect insects. In many cases, however, they would porish in the attempt, if they were nut assisted ; and it is very pretty to see the older...extricate themselves, carefully unfolding their legs aud smoothing out the wings, with truly feminine tenderness and delicacy. Under ordinary circumstances... | |
| John Lubbock (1st baron Avebury.) - Natural history - 1882 - 244 pages
...naked. The reason for this difference is still quite unknown. After remaining some days in the pupa state they emerge as perfect insects. In many cases,...wings, with truly feminine tenderness and delicacy. 5. In the case of ants, as with other insects which pass through similar metamorphoses — such as... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - Ants - 1882 - 494 pages
...spin a cocoon, and sometimes remain naked. The reason for .this difference is still quite unknown. After remaining some days in this state they emerge...themselves, carefully unfolding their legs and smoothing out the wings, with truly feminine tenderness and delicacy. Our countryman Gould ' was the first to observe,... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - Ants - 1882 - 536 pages
...sometimes spin a cocoon, and sometimes remain naked. The reason for this difference is still quite unknown. After remaining some days in this state they emerge...pretty to see the older ants helping them to extricate them1 Les Fovrniis de la Suisie, p. 420. selves, carefully unfolding their legs and smoothing out the... | |
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