 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1822 - 618 pages
...twenty-four hours devour so much food, and grow so quickly, as to increase their weight two hundred fold ! In five days after being hatched they arrive at their full growth and si/.e, which is a remarkable instance of the care of Providence in fitting them for the part they are... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 462 pages
...twenty-four hours devour so much food, and grow so quickly, as to increase their weight 200 fold ! In five days after being hatched they arrive at their full growth and size ; which is a remarkable instance of the care of Providence in fitting them for the part they are destined... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1832 - 368 pages
...substances. One female, of Musca carnaria, will give birth to twenty thousand young; and the larvse of many flesh-flies devour so much food in twenty-four...there was ground, says Kirby, for the assertion of Linnaeus, that three flies of M. vomitoria could devour a dead horse as quickly as a lion * ; and another... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1832 - 362 pages
...substances. One female, of Musca carnana, will give birth to twenty thousand young ; and the larvce of many flesh-flies devour so much food in twenty-four...there was ground, says Kirby, for the assertion of Linnaeus, that three flies of M. vomitoria could devour a dead horse as quickly as a lion * ; and another... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 450 pages
...consume living, others dead or putrid animal and vegetable substances. One female, of Musca camaria, will give birth to twenty thousand young ; and the...there was ground, says Kirby, for the assertion of Linnaeus, that three flies of M. vomitoria could devour a dead horse as quickly as a lion *; and another... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835 - 500 pages
...consume living, others dead or putrid animal and vegetable substances. One female, of Musca carnaria, will give birth to twenty thousand young; and the...there was ground, says Kirby, for the assertion of Linnaeus, that three flies of M. vomitoria could devour a dead horse as quickly as a lion*; and another... | |
 | History - 1839 - 286 pages
...ascertained that the larvas of some flesh-flies, in the space of twenty-four hours, will devour so much food, and grow so quickly, as to increase their weight two...being hatched, they arrive at their full growth and size;—a remarkable instance of the care of a gracious Providence, in fitting them for the part they... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1840 - 500 pages
...others dead or putrid animal and vegetable substances. One female, of Musca carnariu, will give i (3 birth to twenty thousand young; and the larvae of...there was ground, says Kirby, for the assertion of Linnaeus, that three flies of M. vomitoria could devour a dead horse as quickly as a lion *; and another... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1840 - 504 pages
...substances. One female, of M.USCO, carnaria, will give birth to twenty thousand young; and the larva of many flesh-flies devour so much food in twenty-four...there was ground, says Kirby, for the assertion of Linnaeus, that three flies of M, vomitoria could devour a dead horse as quickly as a lion *; and another... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1842 - 504 pages
...consume living, others dead or putrid animal and vegetable substances. One female, of Musca carnaria, will give birth to twenty thousand young; and the...there was ground, says Kirby, for the assertion of Linneeus, that three flies of M. vomitoria could devour a dead horse as quickly as a lion ; * and another... | |
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will give birth to twenty thousand young ; and the larvae of many fleshflies devour so much food in twenty-four hours, and grow so quickly, as to increase their weight two hundred-fold ! In five days after being hatched they arrive at their full (growth... 
