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Stories of insect life (1897)

Weed, Clarence Moores, 1864-1947 · Boston [etc.] Ginn & Company · leaf 49

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FIG. 40. — Egg Masses on a Bock. If you examine one of these patches (Fig. 39) close at hand,you will find that it is a thin, wafer-like circle, slightly swollenin the middle. The outer surface is smooth. The circle is 41 42 STORIES OF INSECT LIFE. … FIG. 41. — Young Dob-son, much enlarged. composed of a dry, brittle, whitish substance, beneath which are several layers of minute, yellowish white eggs pressed closely together side by side. If you have the patience to count the eggs in a single disc you will find two or three thousand of them.…

Insects -- Juvenile literature

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