The student of [insects] finds beauty not only in the brilliant hues of a butterfly's wing or the metallic sheen of a beetle's elytron, but also in the wonderfully adapted form of those minute organs and structures which subserve the needs of life; graceful feathered feelers that are the seat of delicate sense-organs, claws and pads on feet that ensure firm hold in walking -- all might well be acclaimed as "miracles of design."
The Biology of Insects, George H. Carpenter, D. Sc. (1928, MacMillan & Co. New York)
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