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Allen Grant. Flashlights on Nature
Flashlights on Nature
Table of Contents
CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
I. THE COWS THAT ANTS MILK
II. A PLANT THAT MELTS ICE
III. A BEAST OF PREY
IV. A WOODLAND TRAGEDY
V. MARRIAGE AMONG THE CLOVERS
VI. THOSE HORRID EARWIGS
VII. THE FIRST PAPER-MAKER
VIII. ABIDING CITIES
IX. A FROZEN WORLD
X. BRITISH BLOODSUCKERS
XI. A VERY INTELLIGENT PLANT
XII. A FOREIGN INVASION OF ENGLAND
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Grant Allen
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Look once more at No. 6, and you will see that while the tiger-like enemy is engaged in hoisting and devouring one unfortunate aphis, its neighbour below, heedless of the tragedy, is quietly engaged in blowing-off honey-dew.
This blowing-off of honey-dew leads me on direct to the very heart of my subject; for it is as manufacturers of honey-dew and as cows to the ants that aphides base their chief claim to attention. If they did not produce this Turkish delight of the insect world, nobody would have troubled to study them so closely. Let us go on to see, then, what is the origin and meaning of this curious and almost unique secretion.
