The Life-Story of Insects. George H. Carpenter

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       George H. Carpenter

      The Life-Story of Insects

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066120481

       PREFACE

       CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

       CHAPTER II GROWTH AND CHANGE

       CHAPTER III THE LIFE-STORIES OF SOME SUCKING INSECTS

       CHAPTER IV FROM WATER TO AIR

       CHAPTER V TRANSFORMATIONS,—OUTWARD AND INWARD

       CHAPTER VI LARVAE AND THEIR ADAPTATIONS

       CHAPTER VII PUPAE AND THEIR MODIFICATIONS

       CHAPTER VIII THE LIFE-STORY AND THE SEASONS

       CHAPTER IX PAST AND PRESENT; THE MEANING OF THE STORY

       OUTLINE CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS Class INSECTA or HEXAPODA.

       Sub-class A, Apterygota .

       Sub-class B, Exopterygota .

       Sub-class C, Endopterygota .

       TABLE OF GEOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

       Calnozoic or Tertiary Group.

       Mesozoic or Secondary Group.

       Palaeozoic or Primary Group.

       BIBLIOGRAPHY

       A. GENERAL WORKS.

       B. SPECIAL WORKS.

       INDEX

       THE CAMBRIDGE MANUALS OF SCIENCE AND LITERATURE

       70 VOLUMES NOW READY

       SOME VOLUMES IN PREPARATION

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      The object of this little book is to afford an outline sketch of the facts and meaning of insect-transformations. Considerations of space forbid anything like an exhaustive treatment of so vast a subject, and some aspects of the question, the physiological for example, are almost neglected. Other books already published in this series, such as Dr. Gordon Hewitt's House-flies and Mr. O H. Latter's Bees and Wasps, may be consulted with advantage for details of special insect life-stories. Recent researches have emphasised the practical importance to human society of entomological study, and insects will always be a source of delight to the lover of nature. This humble volume will best serve its object if its reading should lead fresh observers to the brookside and the woodland.

      G. H. C.

      Dublin,

       July, 1913.

       INTRODUCTION

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      Among the manifold operations of living creatures few have more strongly impressed the casual observer or more deeply interested the thoughtful student than the transformations of insects. The schoolboy watches the tiny green caterpillars hatched from eggs laid on a cabbage leaf by the common white butterfly, or maybe rears successfully a batch of silkworms through the changes and chances of their lives, while the naturalist questions yet again the 'how' and 'why' of these common though wondrous life-stories, as he seeks to trace their course more fully than his predecessors knew.

      Fig. 1. a, Diamond-back Moth (Plutella cruciferarum); b, young caterpillar, dorsal view; c, full-grown caterpillar, dorsal view; d, side view; e, pupa, ventral view. Magnified 6 times. From Journ. Dept. Agric. Ireland, vol. I.


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