Excerpt from The Relation of the Sensory Reactions to the Assembling Habits of Hippodamia Convergens: A Thesis Submitted in Partial Satisfaction of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science at the University of CaliforniaThe assembling habits of the lady-bird beetles (coccinellidae) have been observed and referred to for many years but no scientific experimentation to ascertain the causes of this characteristic habit so peculiarly illustrated by Hippodamia convergens has, to the writer's knowledge, been undertaken previous to this.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.