Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 463
from the front of the head, quitelong legs, and two long bristles from the lower endof the body. The female has a thick, plumpbody, short antennae, short bristles, no wings, andlegs so short that it cannot move far from whereit is placed, and its hooked claws are only used for holding on to the… … THE COCHINEAL ON THE CACTUS The cochineal feeds upon a kind of Indian fig, orcactus, called nopal ; the plants are set in rowsand kept cut down to about four feet high. Theplantations are called nopaleries, or cactusgardens, and sometimes one garden has fifty or THE COCHINEAL. 439 sixty thousand…
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