 | John Obadiah Westwood - 1839 - 490 pages
...whence these insects were named by the first naturalists Pilulariae. These balls are at first irregular and soft, but, by degrees, and during the process...harder: they are propelled by means of the hind legs ; and the insects occasionally mount to the top, when they find a difficulty in urging them along ;... | |
 | Georg Ludwig Hartwig - 1866 - 496 pages
...balls of excrementitious matter in which they enclose their eggs. These balls are at first irregular and soft, but by degrees, and during the process of...rounded and harder ; they are propelled by means of the hind-legs ; and the insects occasionally mount to the top when they find a difficulty of urging them... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - 1869 - 724 pages
...balls of excremeutitious matter in which they inclose their eggs. These balls are at first irregular and soft; but, by degrees, and during the process of rolling along, become round and harder; they are propelled by means of the hind legs, the insects occasionally mounting to... | |
 | Entomological Society of Ontario - 1872 - 416 pages
...their eggs. These balls are at first irregular and soft, but by degrees, and by continued rolling, they become rounded and harder ; they are propelled by means of the hind legs, and the insects occasionally mount on the top, when they find a difficulty in urging them along ; probably... | |
 | Hermes (Trismegistus.) - 1906 - 500 pages
...of excrementitious matter in which they enclose their eggs. . . . These balls are at first irregular and soft, but, by degrees, and during the process of rolling along, become rounder and harder ; they are propelled by means of the hind legs. Sometimes these balls are an inch... | |
 | Hermes (Trismegistus.) - 1906 - 508 pages
...of excrementitious matter in which they enclose their eggs. . . . These balls are at first irregular and soft, but, by degrees, and during the process of rolling along, become rounder and harder ; they are propelled by means of the hind legs. Sometimes these balls are an inch... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1921 - 992 pages
...serviceable to its possessors in rolling along the balls of excrementitious matter on which they feed. These balls are at first irregularly shaped and soft,...along the beetles stand almost upon their heads, with heads turned from the balls. They do this in order to bury their balls in holes which they have already... | |
 | E. A. Wallis Budge, Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 2005 - 258 pages
...balls of exerementitious matter in which they enclose their eggs. These balls are at first irregular and soft, but, by degrees, and during the process...and a half or two inches in diameter, and in rolling thorn along the beetles stand almost upon their heads, with the heads turned from the balls. These... | |
 | 626 pages
...these insects were named by the first naturalists " Pilulariae." These balls are at first irregular and soft, but by degrees, and during the process of...harder ; they are propelled by means of the hind legs. These balls are from 1 £ inches to 2 inches in diameter, and in rolling them along the beetles stand... | |
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These balls are at first irregularly shaped and soft, but by degrees, and during the process of rolling along, become rounded and harder; they are propelled by means of the hind legs. 