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The Structure and Life-history of the Cockroach (Periplaneta orientalis)

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The Structure and Life-history of the Cockroach (Periplaneta orientalis)

Louis Compton Miall and Alfred Denny

227 pages~4 hr 32 min read88 chapters$4.99
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The common cockroach, so easy to loathe, turns out to be a superb teacher of insect anatomy. Miall dissects Periplaneta from the outside in, then sets it in the great tradition of insect study running back through Swammerdam and Malpighi. A classic laboratory guide to a much-maligned bug. Meet the roach as the naturalists knew it.

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88 chapters

  1. 1THE STRUCTURE AND LIFE-HISTORY OF THE COCKROACH (PERIPLANETA ORIENTALIS) An Introduction to the Study of Insects
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4CHAPTER I.
  5. 5Malpighi on the Silkworm.
  6. 6Swammerdam on the Honey Bee.
  7. 7Lyonnet on the Goat Moth.
  8. 8Straus-Dürckheim on the Cockchafer.
  9. 9Later Insect Anatomists.
  10. 10CHAPTER II.
  11. 11Characters of Arthropoda.
  12. 12Characters of Insects.
  13. 13Orders of Insects.
  14. 14Further Definition of Cockroaches.
  15. 15CHAPTER III.
  16. 16Range.
  17. 17Food and Habits.
  18. 18The Cockroach a persistent type.

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