"Longicorn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which I lift in wide strips, swarms a population of larvae all belonging to Cerambyx cerdo. There are big larvae and little larvae; moreover, they are accompanied by nymphs. These details tell us of three years of larval existence, a duration of life frequent in the Longicorn series. If we hunt the thick of the trunk, splitting it again and again, it does not show us a single grub anywhere; the entire population is encamped between the bark and the wood. Here we find an inextricable maze of winding galleries, crammed with packed sawdust, crossing, recrossing, shrinking ...
— The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles • Jean Henri Fabre
... The engraving on the preceding page represents in its various transformations one of the most familiar and graceful of the longicorn beetles ...
— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent
... inhabit yak-droppings.* [As Aphodius and Geotrupes. Predaceous genera were very rare, as Carabus and Staphylinus, so typical of boreal regions. Coccinella (lady-bird), which swarms at Dorjiling, does not ascend so high, and a Clytus was the only longicorn. Bupretis, Elater, and Blaps were found but rarely. Of butterflies, the Machaon seldom reaches this elevation, but the painted-lady, Pontia, Colias, Hipparchia, Argynnis, and Polyommatus, are all found.] Bees were common, both Bombus and Andraena, ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker
... antennae beyond it is so small and slender as to be scarcely visible, and thus an excellent substitute is obtained for the short clubbed antennae of the Corynomalus. Erythroplatis corallifer is another curious broad flat beetle, that no one would take for a Longicorn, since it almost exactly resembles Cephalodonta spinipes, one of the commonest of the South American Hispidae; and what is still more remarkable, another Longicorn of a distinct group, Streptolabis hispoides, was found ...
— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace |
