Bird on a flower
Thelemark cows of Norway
Owl 2
Bird
Ducks Swimming (2)
Black Mallards
Woodpecker
Black Mallard Ducks
The Swarm spirit
Bird 2
Bird 3
Owl
Mouth-parts of Honey Bee
In the Honey Bee nearly all the mouth-parts of the Cockroach are to be made out, though some are small and others extremely produced in length. The mandibles (Mn) are not much altered, and are still used for biting, as well as for kneading wax and other domestic work. The mandibular teeth have proved inconvenient, and are gone. The lacinia of the maxilla (Mx′) forms a broad and flexible blade, used for piercing succulent tissues, but the galea has disappeared, and there is only a vestige of the maxillary palp (Mxp). In the second pair of maxillæ the palp (Lp) is prominent; its base forms a blade, while the tip is still useful as an organ of touch. The paraglossæ (Pa) can be made out, but the laciniæ are fused to form the long, hairy tongue. This ends in a spoon-shaped lobe (not unlike the “finger” of an elephant’s trunk), which is used both for licking and for sucking honey.
Bird 4
Two toads
Pear
Bees on apple blossoms
A Toad
Rose Hip cut lengthwise to show the seeds
Apple Flower
Apple cut crosswise
Apple cut lengthwise
A frog eyeing his lunch
Frogs
A frog
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Pear cut lengthwise
Apples
berries of the bittersweet
Wild Beach plums
A Rose hip
Fresh-Water Hydra
In fresh-water ponds, attached by its base to the under surfaces of aquatic plants, may be found a very small animal, just large enough to be seen without the aid of a lens, usually pale green, but sometimes of a brown color. This is our common hydra, technically called Hydra fusca. It is nothing more than a tube or sac, with a sucker at one end to hold on with, and a mouth at the other, surrounded with[37] from five to eight hollow tentacles or feelers, which opens into a central cavity or stomach. Firm and muscular are the walls of the sac, so that the little creature, which is not fixed permanently to whatever it is found clinging to, may stretch itself out or draw back as its own volition dictates, or move slowly along by means of its sucker, or float easily or contentedly upon the water. But the most remarkable, as well as the most interesting thing about this odd creature is the power which it possesses of overcoming animals more powerful and active than itself.
Grass border
Chætosoma scaritides
Chætosoma scaritides
cherry blossom cut open
Colymbetes rufimanus - Larva
Burdock
Pterostichus opulentus
dandelion seedbox
Staphylinus oculatus
Staphylinus oculatus
Body of an insect
Body of an insect (Hymenoptera), showing the principal divisions A, head B, thorax C, abdomen a, antenna c, compound eyes m, mandible s, simple eyes b, prothorax d, mesothorax k, metathorax 1W, fore-wing 2W, hind-wing n, coxa o, trochanter p, femur r, tibia t, tarsus 1 to 9 segments of the abdomen.
Indian cucumber root
Stethaspis suturalis - Larva
Stethaspis suturalis - Larva
Oral and digestive system of Deinacrida megacephala
Oral and digestive system of Deinacrida megacephala 1, mandibles 2, maxillæ 3, labrum 4, labium 5, maxillary palpi 6, labial palpi 8, œsophagus 9, crop 10, gizzard 11, pancreas 12, stomach 13, biliary vessels 14, ilium 15, colon 16, anus.
Star-fish Opening an Oyster
When first seen stranded on the shore the Star-fish, by the uninitiated, is thought to be a creature incapable of movement of any kind. But this is far from being the case, for in its native element it moves along the bottom of the sea with the greatest ease, being provided with an apparatus specially adapted for the purpose. Ordinarily its arms are kept upon the same level, but in passing over obstacles that lay in its path, the animal has the power of raising any one of its several arms. Elevations are ascended with the same[42] ease and facility as progression on plane surfaces is effected.
Cherry Flower 2
Pterostichus opulentus - Larva
Dryocora howittii - Larva
Dryocora howittii - Larva
Chokeberries
Colymbetes rufimanus
Dorcus punctulatus
Dorcus punctulatus
Milkweed plant
barberries
Apple
berries of the bittersweet
Cherry flower
Dryocora howittii
Dryocora howittii
Low at our feet are the red ones of the wintergreen
Cicindela tuberculata
white baneberry