Our Common Insects Our Common Insects

Our Common Insects

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Publisher Description

It is a science book. What is an Insect? When we remember that the insects alone comprise four-fifths of the animal kingdom, and that there are upwards of 200, 000 living species, it would seem a hopeless task to define what an insect is. But a common plan pervades the structure of them all. The bodies of all insects consist of a succession of rings, or segments, more or less hardened by the deposition of a chemical substance called chitine; these rings are arranged in three groups: the head, the thorax, or middle body, and the abdomen or hind body. In the six-footed insects, such as the bee, moth, beetle or dragon fly, four of these rings unite early in embryonic life to form the head; the thorax consists of three, as may be readily seen on slight examination, and the abdomen is composed either of ten or eleven rings. The body, then, seems divided or insected into three regions, whence the name insect.

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
1905
1 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
290
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SELLER
Public Domain
SIZE
3.4
MB

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