. Blossom hosts and insect guests; how the heath family, the bluets, the figworts, the orchids and similar wild flowers welcome the bee, the fly, the wasp, the moth and other faithful insects. Fertilization of plants. blossom Hosts and Insect Guests and within a day or so changes to a chrysaHs. At the expiration of about a fortnight, as we open the box, we are apt to liberate one or more tiny gray moths, which, upon examination, we are bound to confess are a poor recompense for the blossom for which they are the substitute. This little moth is shown very much enlarged in the accompanying tail-
. Blossom hosts and insect guests; how the heath family, the bluets, the figworts, the orchids and similar wild flowers welcome the bee, the fly, the wasp, the moth and other faithful insects. Fertilization of plants. blossom Hosts and Insect Guests and within a day or so changes to a chrysaHs. At the expiration of about a fortnight, as we open the box, we are apt to liberate one or more tiny gray moths, which, upon examination, we are bound to confess are a poor recompense for the blossom for which they are the substitute. This little moth is shown very much enlarged in the accompanying tail-piece. Its upper wings are variously mottled with gray and light brown, and thickly fringed at their tips, while the two lower wings are like individual feathers, fringed on both sides of a narrow centre. These and other charac- ters ally the insect with the great group known as the TineidcB, of which the common clothes-moth is a notorious 56. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896; Davie, Eleanor E. New York, Newson
Size: 1554px × 1607px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorgibsonwh, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookyear1901
