Everyday Objects Or Picturesque Aspects of Natural History
Everyday Objects Or Picturesque Aspects of Natural History
W H Davenport William Henry Davenport Adams
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355 To clear up the mystery of a movement whose cause is not apparent at the first glance, let us sprinkle with this impalpable debris, with this kind of sawdust, or cheese- dust, a little strip of glass, and place it beneath the focus of a microscope. Ah ! you exclaim, what a frightful creature ! These long sharp cilias seem to be so many lancets covering the whole body, and especially the legs ; its head, like that of the harvest-bug, protrudes and recedes under a transparent cara- pace ; thu...s communicating to the animal something of the aspect of a turtle. In all other respects its form exactly resembles the harvest- bug; only its body is more elongated towards the anterior extremity than that of the latter. While the harvest- bug makes us think of a spider, the body of the Acarus has a greater likeness to an insect's. (Fig. 77. ) Yet the Acarus has eight legs, like a spider, and the harvest- bug six, like an insect. Attempt, then, to establish your absolute rules ! Let us continue our observation of this cheese-worm.
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