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diff --git a/old/10834.txt b/old/10834.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..371c709 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/10834.txt @@ -0,0 +1,859 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, The History of Insects, by Unknown + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: The History of Insects + +Author: Unknown + +Release Date: January 25, 2004 [eBook #10834] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: US-ASCII + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY OF INSECTS*** + + +E-text prepared by Internet Archive Children's Library, Garrett Alley, and +the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustrations. + See 10834-h.htm or 10834-h.zip: + (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/0/8/3/10834/10834-h/10834-h.htm) + or + (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/0/8/3/10834/10834-h.zip) + + + + +THE HISTORY OF INSECTS + +NEW-YORK: +PRINTED AND SOLD BY SAMUEL WOOD, +At the Juvenile Book-store, +No. 357, Pearl-street. + +1813. + + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + And God made every thing that creepeth + upon the earth. Gen. 1. 25. + + + + + +A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z. + + * * * * * + +a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z. + + * * * * * + +_A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z_. + + * * * * * + +_a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z_. + + * * * * * + +fi fl ff ffi ffl----_fi fl ff ffi ffl_. + + + + + + + Observe the insect race, ordained to keep + The silent sabbath of a half year's sleep! + Entom'd beneath the filmy web they lie + And wait the influence of a kinder sky; + When vernal sunbeams pierce the dark retreat, + The heaving tomb distends with vital heat; + The full formed brood, impatient of their cell, + Start from their trance, and burst their silken shell. + +BARBAULD. + + + + +THE HISTORY OF INSECTS. + + * * * * * + +Insects are so called from a separation in the middle of their bodies, +seemingly cut into two parts, and joined together by a small ligature, +as we see in wasps and common flies. + +However small and contemptible this class of beings may appear, at first +thought, yet, when we come to reflect, and carefully investigate, we +shall be struck with wonder and astonishment, and shall discover, that +the smallest gnat that buzzes in the meadow, is as much a subject of +admiration as the largest elephant that ranges the forest, or the +hugest whale which ploughs the deep; and when we consider the least +creature that we can imagine, myriads of which are too small to be +discovered without the help of glasses, and that each of their bodies is +made up of different organs or parts, by which they receive or retain +nourishment, &c. with the power of action, how natural the exclamation, +O "Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all." +Under these considerations, that they are the work of the same great, +good, and Almighty hand that formed us, and that they are all capable of +feeling pleasure and pain, surely every little child, as well as older +person, ought carefully to avoid every kind of cruelty to any kind of +creature, great or small. + +The supreme court of Judicature at Athens punished a boy for putting out +the eyes of a poor bird; and parents and masters should never overlook +an instance of cruelty to any thing that has life, however minute, and +seemingly contemptible the object may be. + + "I would not enter on my list of friends + (Though grac'd with polish'd manners, and fine sense, + Yet wanting sensibility) the man + Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." + +COWPER. + + + + +ELEPHANT-BEETLE. + +[Illustration] + + +The elephant-beetle is the largest of this kind hitherto known, and is +found in South America, particularly in Guiana, about the rivers Surinam +and Oroonoko. It is of a black colour, and the whole body is covered +with a shell, full as thick and as strong as that of a small crab. There +is one preserved in the museum that measures more than six inches. + + + + +GRASSHOPPER. + +[Illustration] + + +Grasshoppers are too common to need description, as they abound almost +wherever there is green grass. One summer only is their period of life; +they are hatched in the spring, and die in the fall; previous to which, +they deposite their eggs in the earth, which the genial warmth of the +next season brings to life. They are food for many of the feathered +race. + + + + +CRICKET. + + +[Illustration] + +There are two classes of crickets: viz. the field cricket, and the house +cricket; the latter inhabits warm places, the holes of the hearth, &c. +from whence we hear its notes, which are agreeable: it is said, that +they are purchased by some, and kept in a kind of cage, for the sake of +their music. Field crickets inhabit the meadows, and subsist on roots, +&c. as does another species, called the mole cricket. + + + + +LOCUST. + +[Illustration] + + +There are different kinds of the locust; those we are acquainted with, +in this country, are represented in the above cut. In some seasons, they +are scarcely heard at all; in others, they are more numerous. About the +middle or latter part of summer, we hear them among the leaves of the +trees: their notes, which are continued about the space of one minute, +are loud at the beginning, and grow lower and lower, till they cease; +when they immediately fly to another tree, begin again, and end in the +same way, and so on. + +In the eastern countries, a kind or kinds of locust, at different +periods, have been very numerous, and have done abundance of damage. In +the year 1650, a cloud of locusts entered Russia, in three different +places; and from thence spread over Poland and Lithuania; the air was +darkened, and the earth covered, in some places, to the depth of four +feet; the trees bent with heir weight, and the damage sustained exceeded +computation. Locusts were among the plagues of Egypt: sec Exodus, x. 15. + + + + +FLEA. + +[Illustration] + + +This very troublesome little animal multiplies very fast among old rags, +dirt, straw, and litter, where hogs, cats, or dogs sleep; and in the +hair and bristles of those creatures: therefore, as a means of avoiding +such unwelcome neighbours, in the springs the cleanly farmer scrapes up +the rubbish about his woodpile, and around his house and barn, and +removes it into his field, where it also repays him by manuring his +lands. They abound in warm countries, particularly in the southern parts +of France and Italy. + +When examined by a microscope, the flea is a pleasant object. The body +is curiously adorned with a suit of polished armour, neatly jointed, and +beset with a great number of sharp pins almost like the quills of a +porcupine: it has a small head, large eyes, two horns, or feelers, which +proceed from the head, and four long legs from the breast; they are very +hairy and long, and have several joints, which fold as it were one +within another. + + + + +LOUSE. + +[Illustration] + + +These loathsome animals, however unwelcome, attend in troops, and add to +the afflictions of the unfortunate and lazy; but they are routed by the +hand of industry and cleanliness. + +In examining the louse with a microscope, its external deformity strikes +us with disgust. It has six feet, two eyes, and a sort of sting, +proboscis, or sucker, with which it pierces the skin, and sucks the +blood. The skin of the louse is hard and transparent, with here and +there several bristly hairs: at the end of each leg are two claws, by +which it is enabled to lay hold of the hairs, on which it climbs. There +is scarcely any animal known to multiply so fast as this unwelcome +intruder: from an experiment of Lieuenhoek, a louse in eight weeks, may +see five thousand of its descendants. + +Among the ancients, what is called the lousy disease was not uncommon: +Antiochus, Herod, and others are said to have died of this disorder. + + + + +ITCH ... MITE. + +[Illustration] + +CHEGO ... DEATHWATCH. + + +There are many species of mites, beside the itch animal and mite above: +to the naked eye, they appear like moving particles of dust: but the +microscope discovers them to be perfect animals, having as regular a +figure, and performing all the functions of life as perfectly as +creatures that exceed them many times in bulk: their eggs are so small +that a regular computation shews that 90 millions of them are not so +large as a common Pigeon's egg. + +The Chego is a very small animal, about one fourth the size of a common +flea: it is very troublesome, in warm climates, to the poor blacks, such +as go barefoot, and the slovenly: it penetrates the skin, under which it +lays a bunch of eggs, which swell to the bigness of a small pea. + +The Deathwatch, of which there are two kinds, is an insect famous for a +ticking noise, like a watch, which superstitious people take for a +presage of death, in the family where it is heard. + + + + +SCORPION. + +[Illustration] + + +This is one of the largest of the insect tribe. It is met with in +different countries, and of various sizes, from two or three inches to +nearly a foot in length: it somewhat resembles a lobster, and casts its +skin, as the lobster does its shell. + +Scorpions are common in hot countries: they are very bold and watchful: +when any thing approaches, they erect their tails, and stand ready to +inflict the direful sting. In some parts of Italy and France, they are +among the greatest pests that plague mankind: they are very numerous, +and are most common in old houses, in dry or decayed walls, and among +furniture, insomuch that it is attended with, much danger to remove the +same: their sting is generally a very deadly poison, though not in all +cases, owing to a difference of malignity of different animals, or some +other cause. + +In the time of the children of Israel, scorpions were a plague in Egypt +and Canaan, as appears by the sacred writings. See Deuteronomy, viii. +15, and other passages. + + + + +ANTS. + +[Illustration] + + + 'Who can observe the faithful ant, + And not provide for future want.' + +These little animals have been for ages considered as patterns of +industry: they were specially noticed by the wise king Solomon. He says, +"go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise." The ant +lays eggs in the manner of common flies; from these eggs are hatched +small maggots, or worms without legs; these, after a short time, change +into large white aureliae, or chrysales, which are usually called ant's +eggs. When a nest of these creatures is disturbed, however great their +own danger, the care they take of their offspring is remarkable: each +takes in its foreceps, a young one, often larger than itself and carries +it off. + +These little insects form to themselves, with much industry and +application, of earth, sticks, leaves, &c. little hillocks, called +ant-hills, in the form of a cone: in these, they dwell, breed, and +deposite their stores: they are commonly built in woody places: the +brushy plains on Long-Island abound with them: they are from one to two +feet in height. + + + + +HONEY-BEE. + +[Illustration] + + +This is an extraordinary, curious, and remarkably industrious little +insect, to which mankind are indebted for one of the most palatable and +wholesome sweets which nature affords; and which was one of the choice +articles with which the promised land was said to abound. + +In every hive of bees, there are three kinds; the queen, the drones, +and the labourers: of these last, there are by far the greatest number: +and as cold weather approaches, they drive from the hives and destroy +the drones, that have not laboured in summer, and will not let them eat +in winter. If bees are examined through a glass hive, all appears at +first like confusion: but, on a more careful inspection, every animal is +found regularly employed. It is very delightful, when the maple and +other trees are in bloom, or the clover in the meadows, to be abroad and +hear their busy hum. + + "Brisk as the busy bee among learning's flowers. + Employ thy youthful sunshine hours." + + + + +DRAGON FLY. + +[Illustration] + + +Of these flies, which are called by many Spindles, there are various +species. They all have two very large eyes, covering the whole surface +of the head. They fly very swiftly, and prey upon the wing, clearing the +air of innumerable little flies. The great ones live about water, but +the smaller are common among hedges, and about gardens. + + + + +BUTTERFLY. + +[Illustration] + + +Of butterflies there are many kinds. How wonderful the various changes +of this class of insects! The butterflies lay their eggs: from these +hatch out worms or caterpillars, which change their skins several times, +and, finally, become aureliae, chrysales, or silkworms, out of which +come the beautiful butterflies. + + + + +SPIDER. + +[Illustration] + + +There are many kinds of spiders; some of which are said to grow to such +a size that they will catch small birds: some are poisonous, but the +greater part are harmless, although to most people their looks are +disgusting. The web of a spider, which is a net for catching its prey, +is an astonishing piece of curiosity. + + + + +SILK WORM + +[Transcriber's Note: The heading 'SILK WORM' was added in order to +improve clarity.] + +[Illustration] + +The silk worm is a very valuable insect: it is produced from an egg of a +yellowish colour, about the size of a small pin's head, that is laid by +a moth, or butterfly. The above cut represents a male and female, and +her eggs, of which she lays several hundreds: the moths live but a few +days; they never eat, and die directly after the eggs are laid. + +[Illustration] + +This cut shews the appearance of the worm, which at first is very small +and black. Its food is the leaves of the white mulberry: as it grows in +size, at four different periods, it apparently sickens, and changes its +skin, and finally, when full grown, it spins a ball of silk, called a +cone, or cocoon, the thread of which is about three hundred yards long: +in the centre of this ball the worm entombs itself, and experiences a +change to a state called an aurelia, or chrysallis, as seen below the +ball: from this aurelia, the moth that lays the eggs is hatched, and +thus goes on the round of this animal's changes, or transmigrations. + +They are natives of China, and were brought into Italy, above twelve +hundred years ago; from thence into Spain; afterwards into France; much +later into Germany and the northern countries; and some have been reared +in the United States of America. + + + + +SAMUEL WOOD + + +Hereby informs the good little Boys and Girls, both of city and country, +who love to read better than to play, that if they will please to call +at his JUVENILE BOOK-STORE, NO. 357, Pearl-street, New-York, it will be +his pleasure to furnish them with a great variety of pretty little +books, with neat nuts, calculated to afford to the young mind pleasing +and useful information. 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