MISCEX-LAft'EOUS WONDERS CF NATURE' 
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Secondly : ■^^■hen the laiTas hatched from the 
laif 
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I he queen in the royal cells, are ready for 
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iiilo nymphs, this queen leaves the hive, conducting ' 1^1,^ 
liong with herj and the first swarm that leaves ib 
uniformly conducted by the old queen. Lastly : i'' 
old queen has conducted the first swarm from the 
remaining bees take particular care of the royal cell*; ‘ j^ri> 
ii^ 
r ent the young queens successively hatched, froi® 
ilieni, unless at an interval of several days between 
TRANSFORMATION OF INSECTS. 
Niiturr's smallest products plca.se tlic eye, 
Whilf jxrt’utLT birlii.<» pass unregarded by. 
Her monsters seem a violence to siglst : 
Tlie.v’re iwrm’d for terror, insects to delight* 
Tims, wlien she nicely frames a piece of art. 
Fine are i,< r strokes, ami small in every part* 
No labour can she boast more wonderful 
Than to inform an atom with a soul; 
To animate her little beauteous fly, . 
And ciolhe it in her gaudiest drapery. 
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nalurcs. The appearance, the structure, ana u* 
a caterpillar, a chrysalis, and a fly, are so 
All winged insects, without exception, and je' 
which are destitute of wings, have to pass thro’-^» 
.changes before they arrive at the 
’(if^ 
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per.son unacquainted with their transformations, ff a 
animal would be considered as three ‘^i^ 
Without the aid of experience, who could 
butterfly, adotned with four beautiful wings, yf 
a long spiral proboscis, instead of a mouth, an“’'^. 
proceeded from a disgusting caterpillar, pro 
and teeth, and fourteen feet! Without 
could imagine that a long, white, smooth, sof j 
under the earth, should be transformed P 
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cru.-'.taceous beetle, 
cases ? 
be transformed b’||| 
having wings covered " •fc!’ 
Be, sides their final metamorphosis into 
und'orgo several intermediate changes. All 
or change their skins more or less frequently 
