: The romance of insect life by Selous Edmund Moore Park Carton Illustrator Speed Lancelot Illustrator - Insects

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"The natural system"--A middle course--Neuropterous insects--White 13 ants and their ways--Kings and queens--A royal diet--Secondary majesties--Soldiers and workers--Ant invaders--Methods of warfare

Ant language--Stridulatory organs--How white ants 20 communicate--Conversation through convulsions--Nests in tubes--Detection of a "crepitus"--Mutual recognition--Cannibalistic propensities--Royal jealousy--Loyal assassins--A kingly feast--Methods of feeding--Foundation of colonies--Swarming habits

Ants and white ants--Guest insects--Ants'-nest beetles--Doubtful 32 relations--A strange forbearance--Yellow ants and white wood-lice--Beetles fed by ants

Ant parasites--Fleet-footed brigands--Honey-stealing mites--A strange 42 table companion--Privileged cockroaches--Ants and their riders--A fly-ride on beetle-back

From biped to quadruped--Flies that borrow wings--Sit-o'-my-head--A 54 novel cradle--Flies that kill bees--Nature's sadness--Consolations of the future--The Tachina fly and the locust

The burden of the locusts--Classical nonsense--Address to 65 Mahomet--Locusts in Europe--Succumb to the English climate--Described by Darwin--Locusts in Africa--The wingless host do greatest damage--Hoppers and jumpers--"An army on the march"

The sense of direction--How locusts look flying--Follow no 75 leader--Unanimity of movement--Flight by moonlight--Roosting at night--Extirpated in Cyprus--The "Chinese Wall" system--Not adapted to Australia--Deference to aboriginal feeling--Locusts in Australia--Strange ceremony of egg-laying--Inadequate explanation

A Greek mistake--Nature vindicated--Cicadas provided for--A difficult 98 feat--Perseverance rewarded--Cicadas in story--Dear to Apollo--Men before the Muses--Plato and Socrates--Athenian views--A mausoleum for pets--The Greek ploughman--Apollo's judgment--Hercules' bad taste--Modern survivals--A beneficent insect--Elementary education in Tuscany

Cicadas in England--A blower of bubbles--The prolific Aphis--A nice 108 calculation--Scientific curiosity--Dragon-fly armies--The son of the south-west wind

Aphides and their enemies--Curious interrelations--The biter 119 bit--Altruistic development--Bread and beer protectors--Saved by ladybirds

Ants and their honey-cows--A mutual benefit--Unity of motive--The end 129 and the means--Two ways of getting honey--Insect cattle--Wasps as cow-milkers--A cow-keeping bee--Ant cow-sheds--Aphides in ants' nests--Children of light and darkness--Forethought extraordinary

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