ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ICHNEUMON
Via Latin from Greek, literally: tracker, hunter, from ikhneuein to track, from ikhnos a footprint; so named from the animal's alleged ability to locate the eggs of crocodiles.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ICHNEUMON»
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Ichneumon tibiit posticis clavatis. The Ichneumon, 'with the hinder legs c/avated.
This is a moderately large species: the head, thorax, legs, and antenna: are\all_
black; the weapon in the tail of the female is long, flender, black, and composed ...
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A General Natural History Or New and Accurate Description of ...
The Ichneumon, vwith the hinder legs elevated. This is a moderately large
species; the head, thorax, legs, and antenna: are' all black; the weapon in the'tail
of the female is long, slender, black, and composed of three hairs 3 the two outer
two ...
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A General Natural History: Or, New and Accurate Descriptions ...
YZe Ichneumon, witb tbe binder legs elevated. ....!: . This is a moderately
largespeciesrthe head, thorax, legs, and antennae are all black; the weapon in
the tail of the female is long, "slender, black', and composed of three hairs; the
two outer- ...
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A General Natural History: Or, New and Accurate Descriptions ...
The other species of the Ichneumon are, 1. The Cotton-fly, or the Ichneumon
which makes a web of cottony matter, of the fize of a pigeon's egg, common on
grass in autumn. 2. The Ichneumon, whose worm feeds on the flesh of the
caterpillar of ...
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The System of Natural History
The black Ichneumon Flie with iron-grey legs, only the hinder pairs are
variegated with black and white. 18. The black. Ichneumon Flie with red legs, a
white forehead, and white spots on the body. 19. The black Ichneumon Flie with
black legs, ...
Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon, 1800
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A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and ...
I have here an ichneumon, which I have kept this long time and cared for as if he
were my son: I will leave him to take care of the babe, and go. (> And so doing,
he went. Meantime there came near the child a black cobra; which when the ...
Charles Dudley Warner, 2008
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Penny cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ...
The habits of this genus, to which several new species have of late been added,
will be collected in the course of this article, especially in that part of it which
treats of Ichneumon Pharaonis. Dr. A. Smith, in the work above quoted, says that
...
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), 1838
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Stories that Float from Afar: Ancestral Folklore of the San ...
The. Ichneumon. argues. with. the. Meerkats. From his mother L. IV. 2. 3520-3533
NOVEMBER 1873 [15 November] The Meerkat was the one who shot an eland.
He went out early on the morrow.' He found the eland's spoor because he was ...
J. David Lewis-Williams, 2000
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Texas Bug Book: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Ichneumon wasp (ENT) ICHNEUMON WASP COMMON NAMES: Ichneumon
Wasp, Ichneumon SCIENTIFIC NAME: Order Hymenoptera, family
Ichneumonidae, many species SIZE: Adult — Vio" to 1V4" IDENTIFIC AT ION:
The largest of the ...
Howard Garrett, C. Malcolm Beck, 2005
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Bulletin of the Egyptian Museum 2007
EINLEITUNG Spitzmaus und Ichneumon lassen sich bisher in mehreren
Tierfriedhöfen nachweisen und kommen auch im Ibiotapheion von Tuna el-Gebel
vor. Die Nilgrasratte wird hier erstmals durch das Ibiotapheion von Tuna el-Gebel
als ...
The Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2010
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ICHNEUMON»
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Butterfly eggs alert mustard plant to voracious caterpillars
This helps ichneumon wasps to find caterpillars. The odour released by plants where eggs are present is different from the odour in plants ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
Nature Nut: This wasp story is an eggs-cellent tail
I had my first ichneumon experience about 20 years ago on a pleasant sunny day at the Quarry Hill Fall Fest. In between trying to get power to ... «Post-Bulletin, Jun 15»
Do any parasitic wasps live on Staten Island?
A few weeks ago, I received an email from Suzanne DiMaso, accompanied by some photographs of an ichneumon wasp she had taken in Bulls ... «SILive.com, Jun 15»
Sunnyvale mourning doves gets custom house
DEAR DICK: It is a giant ichneumon wasp. The tail, which also looks like a dangerous stinger, is actually an ovipositor. Although it's a wasp, ... «San Jose Mercury News, Jun 15»
Large wasp found in Wisconsin
It's called a giant ichneumon. They are large, native parasitic wasps with long tails that mean no harm to humans. The DNR says their long tails ... «Fox11online.com, May 15»
Top 9 creepiest bugs in Ontario
Another huge but (thankfully) harmless bug, the giant ichneumon wasp is native to North America's wooded areas. As wasps, they're capable of ... «Brampton Guardian, May 15»
Fortitude creator Simon Donald answers some burning questions …
"They are called ichneumon wasps. There are around 12,000 species of them. The behaviour of the alien in the film Alien is modelled on the ... «Radio Times, Apr 15»
Insects: Three names bad, two names good?
But check out the names of beneficial insects — Praying mantis. Ichneumon wasp. Syrphid fly. Lacewing. Honeybee. Ladybug. Dragonfly. «North Country Public Radio, Apr 15»
The phorid fly Dohrniphora longirostrata decapitates ants and eats …
For instance, the ichneumon wasps paralyse butterfly caterpillars and lay eggs inside them. Their larvae eat the still-living caterpillar from the ... «BBC News, Jan 15»
Cherry Crop Pest Management
The most common parasitoid eating the moth larvae is a tiny ichneumon wasp. Parasitoids are different from parasites in that they kill their prey. «cedarspringspost, Dec 14»
