DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT LIFE OF LIGHTNING BUG?
Although it looks so fragile and nice, its child is a CRUEL EATER OF FLESH, real hunter.
The Glow-Worm and other Beetles is a book about life of many species of insect such as
a glow-worm (a larva of lightning bug)
a grasshopper
a caterpillar
a spider
a wasp
a bee and so on
It is all scientific Information, written in Easy Language for Anybody, Who wants to know a little bit of incredible, adventurous, Micro World of the Beetles.
Let see a Part of Life of a Lightning Bug´s Child, Glow-Worm:
"...Few insects in our climes vie in popular fame with the Glow-worm, that curious little animal which, to celebrate the little joys of life, kindles a beacon at its tail-end. Who does not know it, at least by name? Who has not seen it roam amid the grass, like a spark fallen from the moon at its full? The Greeks of old called it [Greek: lampouris], meaning, the bright-tailed. Science employs the same term: it calls the lantern-bearer, Lampyris noctiluca, LIN. In this case, the common name is inferior to the scientific phrase, which, when translated, becomes both expressive and accurate.
In fact, we might easily cavil at the word "worm." The Lampyris is not a worm at all, not even in general appearance. He has six short legs, which he well knows how to use; he is a gad-about, a trot-about. In the adult state, the male is correctly garbed in wing-cases, like the true Beetle that he is. The female is an ill-favoured thing who knows naught of the delights of flying: all her life long, she retains the larval shape, which, for the rest, is similar to that of the male, who himself is imperfect so long as he has not achieved the maturity that comes with pairing-time.
That master of the art of gastronomy, Brillat-Savarin, said:
"Show me what you eat and I will tell you what you are."
A similar question should be addressed, by way of a preliminary, to every insect whose habits we propose to study, for, from the least to the greatest in the zoological progression, the stomach sways the world; the data supplied by food are the chief of all the documents of life. Well, in spite of his innocent appearance, the Lampyris is an eater of flesh, a hunter of game; and he follows his calling with rare villainy. His regular prey is..."
CONTENTS
I THE GLOW-WORM
II THE SITARES
III THE PRIMARY LARVA OF THE SITARES
IV THE PRIMARY LARVA OF THE OIL-BEETLES
V HYPERMETAMORPHOSIS
VI CEROCOMÆ, MYLABRES AND ZONITES
VII THE CAPRICORN
VIII THE PROBLEM OF THE SIREX
IX THE DUNG-BEETLES OF THE PAMPAS
X INSECT COLOURING
XI THE BURYING-BEETLES: THE BURIAL
XII THE BURYING-BEETLES: EXPERIMENTS
XIII THE GIANT SCARITES
XIV THE SIMULATION OF DEATH
XV SUICIDE OR HYPNOSIS?
XVI THE CRIOCERES
XVII THE CRIOCERES (continued)
XVIII THE CLYTHRÆ
XIX THE CLYTHRÆ: THE EGG
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