 | Entomological Society of Ontario - Insect pests - 1894 - 518 pages
...amidst all this diversity, well-marked relations to one another. To use the author's opening words " Insects form by far the larger part of the land animals...the vertebrates, their numbers are simply enormous. * * * * The largest insects scarcely exceed in bulk a mouse or a wren, while the smallest are almost... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - Ontario - 1896 - 878 pages
...amidst all this diversity, well-marked relations to one another. To use the author's opening words " Insects form by far the larger part of the land animals...the vertebrates, their numbers are simply enormous. * * * The largest insects scarcely exceed in bulk a mouse or a wren, while the smallest are almost... | |
 | Sidney Frederic Harmer, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley - Zoology - 1910 - 608 pages
...THE MOUTH -EYES THORAX ENTOTHORAX LEGS WINGS ABDOMEN OR HIND BODY SPIRACLES SYSTEMATIC ORIENTATION. INSECTS form by far the larger part of the land animals...unreflecting to treat the creature as of little importance. " It can be crushed in a moment " is perhaps the un formulated idea that underlies the almost complete,... | |
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INSECTS form by far the larger part of the land animals of the world ; they outnumber in species all the other terrestrial animals together, while compared with the Vertebrates their numbers are simply enormous. 