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- Poppyheads
Poppyheads - The Tasmanian 'Mountain Shrimp'
- Common Crayfish
Common Crayfish - Barnacles
Barnacles They are attached to a flexible muscular stem and have a flat, three-sided shell. A large number of genera are distinguished according to the number and the greater or lesser development of the limestone plates. Among the most common are Lepas and Otion . About half of all Lepadid species attach themselves to objects moving in water, to the keel of ships, to pieces of wreckage, etc., or to animals that often change places. Anelasma squalicolaeg lives parasitically on Northern Sharks, into whose skin it has penetrated with its stem; With Lepas anserifera and a few other species, the ships are not infrequently overgrown on their return from almost all southern and tropical seas. [As translated online ] - Beaver
- Cat and mouse
- Beaver 2
- Seed Sailboats
- Violacea Butterfly
Larva, Protected by Ants, Feeding on Flower-buds of Dogwood. Why this species, and doubtless many others of its family, are thus favored, will soon be apparent. Ants may be seen wherever these larvæ may be found, ever ready to receive the honeyed secretion when it pleases the little creatures to eject it, but all the while exercising the closest vigilance lest some wary ichneumon may come along and deal a thrust of its ovipositor, which means misery and ultimate death to their helpless friends. So intent is the larva, with its head buried in the flower, upon its feeding, and so quietly and stealthily does the ichneumon approach its intended victim, that hardly a single individual would be left to tell the story of its existence were it not for the ants. The larvæ know their protectors, it would seem from their actions, and are able and willing to reward their services. The advantage is mutual, and the association friendly. No compelling by rough means on the one part is noticeable, and no reluctant yielding on the other. All demonstrations made by the ants are of the most gentle character. They caress, entreat, and as they drink in the sweet fluid, lifting their heads to prolong the swallowing, they manifest to the utmost their satisfaction and delight. It is amusing to see them lick away the last trace, caressing the back of the segment with their antennæ as they do so, as though they were coaxing for a little more. - Maple keys
- Cat on a curtain
- bean plants
- air ships of the milkweed
- Cherry
- hemlock cone
- Two Species of Caprellidæ
- Cat
- Chicken and kitten
- Cockroach (Roach)
- Bees
The figure is a very accurate representation of the Queen, the Worker and the Drone. - Protomyxa Feeding
Quite as interesting among the Moners, to which the Finger Slime belongs, is the Protomyxa aurantiaca, a shapeless bit of transparent matter, containing merely circulating granules. Locomotion is effected by extending the body into pseudopodia, or false feet, and contracting them. Its movement is slow and gliding. When at rest it appears as a mere lump of jelly, but its whole demeanor changes when in the presence of a living animal suited for food. Fine threads immediately begin to shoot out from all sides, which fuse about the unsuspecting prey, while all the little grains in the slime[34] course to and fro. For five or six hours the little fellow hugs closely round the prey until it has become thoroughly absorbed, at least the nutritious parts, into its body-mass, when it draws itself away, or back into its original place, leaving by its side the skeleton of its late victim. Without eyes or ears or parts of any kind it knows how to find its food; without muscles or limbs it is able to seize it; without a mouth it can suck out its living body, and without a stomach it can digest the food in the midst of its own slime, and cast out the parts for which it has no use. - Restoration of a Trilobite (Triarthrus becki), showing the Appendages
- Wise cat
- Kitten Dreams
- Kitten and curtain
- Soggy cat
- Black kitten
- If you split open a maple key, you will find hidden within one of its halves the beautiful baby tree
- a fruit cluster from the hop hornbeam
- dandelion seedbox
- Brachinus Pursued by an Enemy
His Curious and Unique Method of Defence. But it is not so much his odd shape as a most extraordinary property he possesses, which is singularly unique in the animal kingdom, that makes him an object of interest and curiosity. Deep down in his most marvellous body a fluid, highly volatile in its nature, is elaborated, which the little creature can retain or expel at his pleasure. It is only, however, when alarmed that he utilizes this fluid in small quantities in defense, but its effect is wonderful, for in coming into contact with the atmosphere it immediately volatilizes and explodes, looking very much like a discharge of powder from a miniature artillery. In consequence of this phenomenon the insect which produces it is popularly called the Bombardier Beetle. - Kitten getting comfortable
- kitten on a toy boat
- Family portrait
- a single seed sailboat of the dandelion
- Pediculus vestimenti
- Nice looking roast
- Kitten
- Three kittens and a basket
- Kitten and Rabbit
- Cat and kitten 2
- a wing to the seed
- sumac
- Culicoides guttipennis - mouth parts of adult
Of the twenty or more species of this genus occurring in the United States the following are known to bite: C. cinctus, C. guttipennis, C. sanguisuga, C. stellifer, C. variipennis, C. unicolor. - Girl and cat
- Peach cut in half lengthwise
- Seeds of the willow
- Flowers of the fireweed
- Common Lobster
Common Lobster - Three kittens
- a strange and terrible fruit
- Insect frame
- Wasn't me
- Kittens playing with ball of wool
- Fifi, Nicholas and Toto
- Centipede
- Mother cat with kitten
- Cat and kitten 3
- Empress of China climbing rose
- Spoon-feeding kitten