. The sacred beetle, and others [microform]. Beetles; Coléoptères. The Sacred Beetle and Others of August, the probability of an equivalent of that shower is almost uil. How then is the fatal drying-up of the victuals aoided? To begin wJth, there are, so it seems to me, certain gifts bestowed on these little ones so inade(]uately protected by their mother's in- dustry against the enemy, drought. I have seen Onthophagus- and Oniticcllus-larv« recover their appetite, their plumpness and their vigour under the wet cotton, after a three weeks' fast that had reduced them to a wrinl;led pilule. This
. The sacred beetle, and others [microform]. Beetles; Coléoptères. The Sacred Beetle and Others of August, the probability of an equivalent of that shower is almost uil. How then is the fatal drying-up of the victuals aoided? To begin wJth, there are, so it seems to me, certain gifts bestowed on these little ones so inade(]uately protected by their mother's in- dustry against the enemy, drought. I have seen Onthophagus- and Oniticcllus-larv« recover their appetite, their plumpness and their vigour under the wet cotton, after a three weeks' fast that had reduced them to a wrinl;led pilule. This faculty of endurance has its uses: it enables the possessor to await, in a state of lethargy akin to death, the few, very mcertain drops of rain that will put an end to the famine. It comes to the grub's rescue, but it is not sufficient: the prosperity of a race cannot be based upon privation. There is something more, therefore; pnd this is furnished by the mother's instinct. Whereas the manufacturers of pears and ovoids always dig their burrow at an open spot, with no othc- protection than the mound of earth flung ^p, the makers of little thimbles bore their well directly under the material exploited and go by preference to the voluminous droppings of the Horse and the Mule. Under this thick mattress, the 258 wa^'^^mp^mm'ii'/^^w^^s^^rritk'. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Fabre, J. Henri (Jean Henri), 1823-1915. Toronto : McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart
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