"Lycosa" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... same thing occurred. These two caterpillars were repeatedly put into the webs both of the geometrical and hunting spiders (Epeira diadema and Lycosa sp.), but in the former case they were cut out and allowed to drop; in the latter, after disappearing in the jaws of their captor down his dark silken funnel, they invariably reappeared, either from ...
— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace
... nervous system, such as the larvae of Cetoniae, Anoxiae and even Oryctes. They tell me that in Texas a Pepsis, a huntress of big game akin to the Calicurgi, gives chase to a formidable Tarantula and vies in daring with our Ringed Calicurgus,[22] who stabs the Black-bellied Lycosa.[23] They tell me that the Sphex-wasps of the Sahara, a rival of our own White-banded Sphex,[24] operate on Locusts. But we must limit these quotations, which could ...
— The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles • Jean Henri Fabre |
