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NOTES ON BOMBYCIDÆ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Frederick Clarkson
Affiliation:
New York.

Extract

The habits of insects present an attractive and fruitful field of discovery illustrating in many remarkable ways their pecuilar instincts governed by heredity, and more or less conditioned by environment. The power which we call instinct, controlling the habits of insects, has a regularity of action governed by ordinaly conditions, but there are frequent manifestations of adaptation to circumstance, as conspicuous in the several orders of insects as in the various races of mankind.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1889

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