The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 88
eps tell more of thepossibility of danger than such sounds as aretransmitted through the air. So sensitive aretheir feet that they detect the impact of a smallbird-shot dropped on the table from a height ofabout six inches and about fourteen feet distantfrom an artificial nest placed at the other… … GALLS ON OAKS FROM WHICH THE HONEY-ANTS GETTHEIR STORES. These galls are produced by one of the Cy>u/>s, a tiny gall-fly. Thenectar collects in tiny white globules on the surfaces of the gallswhich still contain the immature fly. tip or first joint of the antenna, it is said, is…
Children's literature · Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries · Literature · Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Internet Archive · BYU–Idaho · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.