THE Cows THAT ANTS MILK 



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I shall have a good deal more to say presently. A 

 winged female like this may fly away to another 

 rose-bush to become the foundress of a distant 

 colony. The same illustration also shows, in a 

 greatly enlarged form, her beak or sucking appa- 

 ratus, which con- 

 sists of four sharp 

 lance - like siphons, 

 enclosed in a pro- 

 tective sheath or 

 proboscis, and ad- 

 mirably adapted 

 both for piercing 

 the rose-twig and for 

 draining the juices 

 of your choicest 

 crimson ramblers. 

 The aphis sticks in 

 the point as if it 

 were a needle, and 

 then sucks away 

 vigorously at the 

 rose-tree's life-blood. 

 You can watch her 

 so any day with a 

 common small mag- 

 nifier, and see how, like the lady at Mr. Stiggins' 

 tea meeting, she "swells wisibly" in the process. 

 Indeed, aphides are always beautiful objects for the 

 microscope or pocket lens, with their pale, trans- 

 parent green bodies, their bright black eyes, their 



NO. 4. WINGED FEMALE THE 

 FOUNDRESS OF A COLONY. 



