"Collembola" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... slight, sometimes very great. The new cuticle is rarely an exact reproduction of the old one, it exhibits some new features, which are often indications of the insect's approach towards maturity. Even in some of those interesting and primitive insects the Bristle-tails (Thysanura) and Spring-tails (Collembola), in which wings are never developed, perceptible differences in the form and arrangement of the abdominal limbs can be traced through the successive stages, as R. Heymons (1906) and K.W. Verhoeff (1911) have shown for Machilis. ...
— The Life-Story of Insects • Geo. H. Carpenter |
