"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 |
