If you saw a butterfly on a flower, for what purpose would you think
it was there? What, if you saw it on a leaf? How many spots on fore
wing of female cabbage butterfly? (Fig. 124, above.)
Does the silkworm chrysalis fill its cocoon? Eggs may be obtained
from U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.
[Illustration: FIG. 149.]
[Illustration: FIG. 150.]
[Illustration: FIG. 151.]
[Illustration: FIG. 152.]
[Illustration: FIG. 153.]
[Illustration: FIG. 154.]
[Illustration: FIG. 155.]
[Illustration: FIG. 156.]
[Illustration: FIG. 157.]
[Illustration: FIG. 158.--Anatomy of bee.]
FIGS. 149-161. =Illustrated Study of Bees and their Kindred.=--Head
of worker (Fig. 149): _o_, upper lip; _ok_, chewing jaws; _uk_,
grasping jaws; _kt_, jaw finger; _lt_, lip finger; _z_, tongue.
How do heads of drone (150) and queen (151) differ as to mouth, size
of the two compound eyes, size and position of the three simple eyes?
Is the head of a worker more like head of drone or head of queen?
Judging by the head, which is the queen, drone, and worker in Figs.
154-156? Which of the three is largest? Smallest? Broadest?
Figure 152 shows hind leg of worker. What surrounds the hollow,
_us_, which serves as pollen basket? The point, _fh_, is a tool for
removing wax which is secreted (_c_, Fig. 157) between rings on
abdomen. In Fig. 158, find relative positions of heart, _v_, food
tube, and nerve chain. Is crop, _J_, in thorax or abdomen? In this
nectar is changed to honey, that it may not spoil. Compare nerve
chain in Fig. 132.
[Illustration: FIG. 159.--Ichneumon fly.]
[Illustration: FIG. 160.]
[Illustration: FIG. 161.--Wasp using pebble.
From Peckham’s “Solitary Wasps,” Houghton, Mifflin & Co.]
Compare the cells of _bumble bee_ (Fig. 153) with those of hive bee.
They differ not only in shape but in material, being made of web
instead of wax, and they usually contain larvæ instead of honey. Only
a few of the queens among bumble bees and wasps survive the winter.
How do ants and honey bees provide for the workers also to survive
the winter? Name all the social insects that you can think of. Do
they all belong to the same order?
The ichneumon fly shown enlarged in Fig. 159 lays its eggs under
a caterpillar’s skin. What becomes of the eggs? The true size of
the insect is shown by the cross lines at _a_. The eggs are almost
microscopic in size. The pupæ shown (true size) on caterpillar are
sometimes mistaken for eggs. The same mistake is made about the pupa
cases of ants. Ichneumon flies also use tree-borers as “hosts” for
their eggs and larva. Is this insect a friend of man?
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account