"Coleoptera" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by the natural character of their order, and even of their genus, should have wings, lack them more or less completely from disuse. A quantity of Coleoptera, Orthoptera, Hymenoptera, and of Hemiptera, etc., afford examples; the habits of these animals do not require them to make ...
— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard
... still, i.e. among the Arthropoda, occur many other mathematical wonders. I only mention in a cursory way the logarithmic spiral of the spider's web, the precise curves realized without instruments of any kind by the Coleoptera and Hymenoptera in cutting leaves, the stereometry of the aphides. Then, as it were, at the bottom of the scale (if one may still speak of a descent and a bottom) the marvellous plancton filters of the Appendiculata; the geometrical spots of the Amoebae; the cases of perfect forms of so many other ...
— Lola - The Thought and Speech of Animals • Henny Kindermann |
