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eject and kill her; and not seldom they kill the father-phalangium as well, if
they catch him: for, by the way, he has the habit of co-operating with the
mother in the hatching. The brood of a single phalangium is sometimes three
hundred in number. The spider attains its full growth in about four weeks.
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Grasshoppers (or locusts) copulate in the same way as other insects; that is
to say, with the lesser covering the larger, for the male is smaller than the
female. The females first insert the hollow tube, which they have at their tails,
in the ground, and then lay their eggs: and the male, by the way, is not
furnished with this tube. The females lay their eggs all in a lump together, and
in one spot, so that the entire lump of eggs resembles a honeycomb. After
they have laid their eggs, the eggs assume the shape of oval grubs that are
enveloped by a sort of thin clay, like a membrane; in this membrane-like
formation they grow on to maturity. The larva is so soft that it collapses at a
touch. The larva is not placed on the surface of the ground, but a little beneath
the surface; and, when it reaches maturity, it comes out of its clayey
investiture in the shape of a little black grasshopper; by and by, the skin
integument strips off, and it grows larger and larger.
The grasshopper lays its eggs at the close of summer, and dies after laying
them. The fact is that, at the time of laying the eggs, grubs are engendered in
the region of the mother grasshopper’s neck; and the male grasshoppers die
about the same time. In spring-time they come out of the ground; and, by the
way, no grasshoppers are found in mountainous land or in poor land, but only
in flat and loamy land, for the fact is they lay their eggs in cracks of the soil.
During the winter their eggs remain in the ground; and with the coming of
summer the last year’s larva develops into the perfect grasshopper.
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The attelabi or locusts lay their eggs and die in like manner after laying
them. Their eggs are subject to destruction by the autumn rains, when the
rains are unusually heavy; but in seasons of drought the locusts are
exceedingly numerous, from the absence of any destructive cause, since their
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The Complete Aristotle
- Titel
- The Complete Aristotle
- Autor
- Aristotle
- Datum
- ~322 B.C.
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- englisch
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part 1; Logic (Organon) 3
- Categories 4
- On Interpretation 34
- Prior Analytics, Book I 56
- Prior Analytics, Book II 113
- Posterior Analytics, Book I 149
- Posterior Analytics, Book II 193
- Topics, Book I 218
- Topics, Book II 221
- Topics, Book III 237
- Topics, Book IV 248
- Topics, Book V 266
- Topics, Book VI 291
- Topics, Book VII 317
- Topics, Book VIII 326
- On Sophistical Refutations 348
- Part 2; Universal Physics 396
- Physics, Book I 397
- Physics, Book II 415
- Physics, Book III 432
- Physics, Book IV 449
- Physics, Book V 481
- Physics, Book VI 496
- Physics, Book VII 519
- Physics, Book VIII 533
- On the Heavens, Book I 570
- On the Heavens, Book II 599
- On the Heavens, Book III 624
- On the Heavens, Book IV 640
- On Generation and Corruption, Book I 651
- On Generation and Corruption, Book II 685
- Meteorology, Book I 707
- Meteorology, Book II 733
- Meteorology, Book III 760
- Meteorology, Book IV 773
- Part 3; Human Physics 795
- On the Soul, Book I 796
- On the Soul, Book II 815
- On the Soul, Book III 840
- On Sense and the Sensible 861
- On Memory and Reminiscence 889
- On Sleep and Sleeplessness 899
- On Dreams 909
- On Prophesying by Dreams 918
- On Longevity and the Shortness of Life 923
- On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 929
- Part 4; Animal Physics 952
- The History of Animals, Book I 953
- The History of Animals, Book II translated 977
- The History of Animals, Book III 1000
- The History of Animals, Book IV 1029
- The History of Animals, Book V 1056
- The History of Animals, Book VI 1094
- The History of Animals, Book VII 1135
- The History of Animals, Book VIII 1150
- The History of Animals, Book IX 1186
- On the Parts of Animals, Book I 1234
- On the Parts of Animals, Book II 1249
- On the Parts of Animals, Book III 1281
- On the Parts of Animals, Book IV 1311
- On the Motion of Animals 1351
- On the Gait of Animals 1363
- On the Generation of Animals, Book I 1381
- On the Generation of Animals, Book II 1412
- On the Generation of Animals, Book III 1444
- On the Generation of Animals, Book IV 1469
- On the Generation of Animals, Book V 1496
- Part 5; Metaphysics 1516
- Part 6; Ethics and Politics 1748
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book I 1749
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book II 1766
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book III 1779
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV 1799
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book V 1817
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI 1836
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII 1851
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII 1872
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IX 1890
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book X 1907
- Politics, Book I 1925
- Politics, Book II 1943
- Politics, Book III 1970
- Politics, Book IV 1997
- Politics, Book V 2023
- Politics, Book VI 2053
- Politics, Book VII 2065
- Politics, Book VIII 2091
- The Athenian Constitution 2102
- Part 7; Aesthetic Writings 2156