 ... they change their skins, and reascend to the surface for food. At the close of their third summer, (or, as some say, of the fourth or fifth,) they cease eating, and penetrate about two feet deep into the earth ; there, by its motions from side to...  Dollar Monthly Magazine - Page 3501865Full view - About this book
 | Thaddeus William Harris, Massachusetts. Zoological and Botanical Survey - 1841 - 484 pages
...they descend below the reach of frost, and remain torpid until the succeeding spring, at which time they change their skins, and reascend to the surface...two feet deep into the earth ; there, by its motions from side to side, each grub forms an oval cavity, which is lined by some glutinous substance thrown... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1844 - 1210 pages
...they descend below the reach of frost, and remain torpid until the succeeding spring, at which tiine they change their skins, and reascend to the surface...two feet deep into the earth ; there, by its motions from side to side, each grub forms an oval cavity, which is lined by some glutinous substance thrown... | |
 | Thaddeus William Harris - 1852 - 536 pages
...they descend below the reach of frost, and remain torpid until the succeeding spring, at which time they change their skins, and reascend to the surface...two feet deep into the earth ; there, by its motions from side to side, each grub forms an oval cavity, which is lined by some glutinous substance thrown... | |
 | Thaddeus William Harris - 1862 - 700 pages
...the reach of frost, and remain torpid until the succeeding spring, at which time they change then. skins, and reascend to the surface for food. At the...two feet deep into the earth ; there, by its motions from side to side, each grub forms an oval cavity, which is lined by some glutinous substance thrown... | |
 | Thaddeus William Harris - 1862 - 696 pages
...and remain torpid until the succeeding spring, at which time they change their skins, and rcaseend to the surface for food. At the close of their third...(or, as some say, of the fourth or fifth) they cease eatmg, and penetrate about two feet deep into the earth ; there, by its motions from side to side,... | |
 | Michigan. Board of Agriculture, Michigan. State Department of Agriculture - 1866 - 410 pages
...they will be transformed to beetles. Harris says: "At the close of their third summer (or as some say, the fourth or fifth) they cease eating, and penetrate about two feet deep into the earth; there, by motions from side to side, each grub forms an oval cavity, which is lined by some glutinous substance... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1869 - 1296 pages
...below the reach of frost, and remain torpid until the sue ceeding spring, at which time they chañen their skins, and reascend to the surface for | food....two feet deep into the earth ; there, by its motions from side to side, each grub forms an oval cavity, which is lined by some glutinous substance thrown... | |
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - 1879 - 300 pages
...they descend below the reach of frost, and remain torpid until the succeeding spring, at which time they change their skins, and reascend to the surface...the close of their third summer (or as some say of their fourth or fifth), they cease eating, and penetrate about two feet deep into the earth ; there... | |
 | Thaddeus William Harris - 1862 - 694 pages
...they descend below the reach of frost, and remain torpid until the succeeding spring, at which time they change their skins, and reascend to the surface...(or, as some say, of the fourth or fifth) they cease earing, and penetrate about two feet deep into the earth ; there, by its motions from side to side,... | |
 | Pennsylvania. State Board of Agriculture - 1885 - 712 pages
...they descend below the reach of frost, and remain torpid until the succeeding spring, at which time they change their skins and re-ascend to the surface for food. At the close of the third summer (or, as some say, of the fourth or fifth) they cease eating and penetrate two feet... | |
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