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The book is seen as Bomans' most famous and acclaimed work. Right from the start it was a tremendous bestseller, with ten reprints in the first year. The story both appealed to children as well as adults due to its satirical levels. [1] In 1994, the book was translated into English as Eric in the Land of the Insects by Regina Louise Kornblith. [2]
Detective novels sometimes use insects as unexpected murder weapons. A fly on the wall is used as a voyeur to tell erotic stories in R. Chopping's The Fly, and the anonymous Autobiography of a Flea. Franz Kafka made use of the strangeness of insect metamorphosis in his novella The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung), as have several authors ...
List of damselflies of the world (Calopterygidae) List of data deficient insects; List of dragonflies; E. ... 50 (UTC). Text is ...
By moving its mouthparts the insect mixes its food with saliva. [50] [51] Some insects, like flies, expel digestive enzymes onto their food to break it down, but most insects digest their food in the gut. [52] The foregut is lined with cuticule as protection from tough food. It includes the mouth, pharynx, and crop which stores food. [53]
Fabre's Book of Insects is a non-fiction book that is a retelling of Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Jean-Henri Fabre's Souvenirs entomologiques. It was retold by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell and illustrated by Edward Detmold. [1] It talks about insects in real life, mythology and folklore. [2]
In the world of insects, this pipe turns out to be a cigarette, a joint. The joint is lit and smoked. Before he dies, Maxim appeals to God and is told by God that he is not to blame. (In the human world, Sam smoked a cigarette, and the words that Maxim heard, thinking that it was God’s answer, were Sam’s words addressed to Natasha).
Fertilisation of Orchids is a book by English naturalist Charles Darwin published on 15 May 1862 under the full explanatory title On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects, and On the Good Effects of Intercrossing. [1]
The first page of Centuria Insectorum, as included in Amoenitates Academicæ. Centuria Insectorum (Latin, "one hundred insects") is a 1763 taxonomic work by Carl Linnaeus, and defended as a thesis by Boas Johansson; which of the two men should for taxonomic purposes be credited with its authorship has been the subject of some controversy.