 | 1804 - 400 pages
...cage which contained the dear object of their eager pursuit, iu exactly the same manner as honey-bees which have lost themselves, climb up and down the...them to creep buzzing through your hands, they are nat alarmed as they would be at another time; but continue their pursuit as before, endeavouring to... | |
 | James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood - Insects - 1835 - 332 pages
...hurrying manner as honey-bees which have lost themselves climb up and down the glass of a window. " While under this enervating fascination, if you even handle...cage ; of course any quantity of them may be readily secured. In about four hours after the aurelians have thought proper to admit a male of their liking... | |
 | James Duncan - Lepidoptera - 1836 - 386 pages
...which contained the object of their eager pursuit, in exactly the same hurrying manner as honey-bees, which have lost themselves, climb up and down the glasses of a window." The Chinese likewise turn this ardour in pursuit of the female to good account, by fixing individuals... | |
 | William Jardine - Entomology - 1836 - 402 pages
...which contained the object of their eager pursuit, in exactly the same hurrying manner as honey-bees, which have lost themselves, climb up and down the glasses of a window." The Chinese likewise turn this ardour in pursuit of the female to good account, by fixing individuals... | |
 | James Duncan - Moths - 1860 - 402 pages
...which contained the object of their eagei pursuit, in exactly the same hurrying manner as honey-bees, which have lost themselves, climb up and down the glasses of a window." The Chinese likewise turn this ardour in pursuit of the female to good account, by fixing Individuals... | |
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... effectually secured by the reiterated evolutions of their strong and rapid wings. So fearless indeed have I beheld them become on these occasions, as to climb up and down the sides of the cage which contained the dear object of their eager pursuit;... 