 | John Obadiah Westwood - 1839 - 490 pages
...necessary for the support of their progeny ; the great quantity of materials (viz. four frogs, three small birds, two fishes, one mole, two grasshoppers, the entrails of a fish, and two pieces of ox's liver) which Gleditsch's four confined beetles interred in a small piece of ground in fifty days,... | |
 | John George Wood - 1865 - 708 pages
...with their weight, pulling it this way and that way ; and at last they do what they ought to have doue at first, namely, disappear under the bird and scrape...calculating the labour which would be necessary for a man to inter, in two days, an animal forty times as large as himself. Perhaps the reader may remember... | |
 | John George Wood - 1866 - 674 pages
...mount it as if to see how the work is proceeding, and then disappear afresh and renew their labors. Sometimes they dig rather too much on one side, and...and perseverance of the beetle by calculating the labor which would be necessary for a man to inter, in two days, an animal forty times as large as himself.... | |
 | John George Wood - 1866 - 680 pages
...mount it as if to see how the work is proceeding, and then disappear afresh and renew their labors. Sometimes they dig rather too much on one side, and...estimate the strength and perseverance of the beetle by cajculating the labor which would be necessary for a man to inter, in two days, an animal forty times... | |
 | John George Wood - 1866 - 732 pages
...Gleiditsch, four beetles buried, in a small piece of earth, four frogs, three birds, two fishes, tme mole, two grasshoppers, the entrails of a fish, and...calculating the labour which would be necessary for a man to inter, in two days, an animal forty times as large as himself Perhaps the reader may remember... | |
 | Entomological Society of Ontario - 1872 - 416 pages
...small space, and supplied them with the following quantity of materials : four frogs, . three small birds, two fishes, one mole, two grasshoppers, the entrails of a fish, and two pieces of ox's liver ; they succeeded in interring the whole in fifty days. Of course this quantity, was much... | |
 | William Houghton - 1875 - 216 pages
...food for the larvae. It is recorded that in fifty days four beetles buried four frogs, three small birds, two fishes, one mole, two grasshoppers, the entrails of a fish, and two pieces of ox liver ; so that they may be looked upon as useful scavengers. The insects of the genus Necrophorus... | |
 | John Ellor Taylor - 1879 - 268 pages
...from the following incident. M. Gleiditsch watched four of these beetles, which buried the bodies of four frogs, three birds, two fishes, one mole, two...grasshoppers, the entrails of a fish, and two pieces of meat in one small area of earth ! The larvae of several species of beetles are only too well known to farmers... | |
 | Vernon S. Morwood - 1882 - 312 pages
...A foreign naturalist informs us that in fifty days four beetles had buried four frogs, three small birds, two fishes, one mole, two grasshoppers, the entrails of a fish, two morsels of the lungs of an ox, and all intended for the purpose described. Gleditsch says a friend... | |
 | Selina Gaye - 1885 - 360 pages
...mentions that in the course of fifty days he has known four beetles to bury four frogs, three small birds, two fishes, one mole, two grasshoppers, the entrails of a fish, and two pieces of ox liver. It is, indeed, chiefly owing to their burying habits that we may wander for hours in the... | |
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... at first, namely, disappear under the bird and scrape away the earth until the hole is large enough to allow the bird to sink into the required position. The time occupied in the transaction necessarily varies, according to the size of the buried... 
