Insect Manufactures
by Anonymous
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About this eBook
- Author
- Anonymous
- Title
- Insect manufactures
- Original Publication
- London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1847.
- Credits
- Richard Tonsing, deaurider, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QL: Science: Zoology
- Subject
- Insects -- Behavior
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 73626
- Release Date
- May 14, 2024
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.INSECT MANUFACTURES.
- 2.CONTENTS.
- 3.INTRODUCTION.
- 4.CHAPTER I. MANUFACTURE OF SILK BY CATERPILLARS OF VARIOUS KINDS.
- 5.CHAPTER II. MANUFACTURE OF SILK BY THE SILKWORM.
- 6.CHAPTER III. MANUFACTURE OF SILK BY SPIDERS.
- 7.CHAPTER IV. MANUFACTURE OF WAX BY THE HIVE BEE, THE HUMBLE BEE, AND THE WHITE WAX INSECT OF CHINA. — THE MANUFACTURE OF WAX.
- 8.CHAPTER V. MANUFACTURE OF HONEY BY THE HIVE BEE.
- 9.CHAPTER VI. MANUFACTURE OF COCHINEAL BY THE COCCUS CACTI, OR COCHINEAL INSECT.
- 10.CHAPTER VII. MANUFACTURE OF GUM LAC BY THE LAC INSECT.
- 11.CHAPTER VIII. MANUFACTURE OF NUT GALLS BY THE GALL INSECT.
- 12.CHAPTER IX. OTHER INSECT PRODUCTIONS USEFUL TO MAN.
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