 When, at last, the filling was level with the ground, she brought a quantity of fine grains of dirt to the spot and picking up a small pebble in her mandibles, used it as a hammer in pounding them down with rapid strokes, thus making this spot as hard...  Natural Science - Página 3431898Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | George Iles - 1906 - 604 páginas
...last the filling was level with the ground, she brought a quantity of fine grains of dirt to the spot, and picking up a small pebble in her mandibles, used...pounding them down with rapid strokes, thus making this spot as hard and firm as the surrounding surface." It was a wasp, too, which suggested to Reaumur,... | |
 | Henry Richardson Linville, Henry Augustus Kelly - 1906 - 492 páginas
...pebble in her mandibles, used it as a hammer in pounding them down with rapid strokes, thus making this spot as hard and firm as the surrounding surface....recover from our astonishment at this performance she dropped her stone and was bringing more earth. We then threw ourselves down on the ground, that not... | |
 | William Blackley Drummond - 1907 - 380 páginas
...the burrow level with the ground, brought a quantity of fine grains of dirt to the spot, and then, picking up a small pebble in her mandibles, used it as a hammer to pound them down with rapid strokes ! These observations are sufficient to show that even in animals... | |
 | Frances Melville Perry - 1908 - 238 páginas
...last the filling was level with the ground, she brought a quantity of fine grains of dirt to the spot, and picking up a small pebble in her mandibles, used...pounding them down with rapid strokes, thus making this spot as hard and firm as the surrounding surface. Before we could recover from our astonishment... | |
 | Edgar James Swift - 1908 - 350 páginas
...last, the filling was level with the ground, she brought a quantity of fine grains of dirt to the spot, and picking up a small pebble in her mandibles, used it as a hammer, pounding them down with rapid strokes, thus making this spot as hard and firm as the surrounding surface."... | |
 | William Temple - 1922 - 512 páginas
...last the filling was level with the ground, she brought a quantity of fine grains of dust to the spot, and picking up a small pebble in her mandibles, used...making the spot as hard and firm as the surrounding surface.1 This process was repeated several times, and gives an example of the rare improvisation and... | |
 | Frank Aleamon Leach - 1921 - 128 páginas
...brought a quantity of fine grains of dirt to the spot and picking up a small pebble in her mandlbels. used it as a hammer in pounding them down with rapid strokes. Before we could recover from our astonishment at this performance she had dropped the stone and was... | |
 | George Herbert Carpenter - 1928 - 534 páginas
...was full of soil to the ground level : " she brought a quantity of fine grains of dust to the spot and picking up a small pebble in her mandibles, used...pounding them down with rapid strokes, thus making this spot as hard and firm as the surrounding surface." In connection with this very remarkable incident,... | |
 | Marcia Bonta - 1995 - 276 páginas
...last, the filling was level with the ground, she brought a quantity of fine grains of dirt to the spot, and picking up a small pebble in her mandibles, used...pounding them down with rapid strokes, thus making this spot as hard and firm as the surrounding surface. Before we could recover from our astonishment... | |
 | Eileen Crist - 2010 - 262 páginas
...last, the filling was level with the ground, she brought a quantity of fine grains of dirt to the spot, and picking up a small pebble in her mandibles, used...pounding them down with rapid strokes, thus making this spot as hard and firm as the surrounding surface. Before we could recover from our astonishment... | |
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