. The life of the caterpillar [microform]. Caterpillars; Chenilles. n "â * 'â¢*«i:( The Life of the Caterpillar Does it show that the absence of these organs has made them incapable of finding the wire bell in which the prisoner awaits them? Not at all. Like the shorn ones, whose operation has left them uninjured, they prove oidy that their time is up. Whether maimed or intact, they are unfit for duty because of their age; and their non-return is valueless as evidence. For lack of the time necessary for experi- menting, the part played by the antennae es- capes us. Doubtful it was and do
. The life of the caterpillar [microform]. Caterpillars; Chenilles. n "â * 'â¢*«i:( The Life of the Caterpillar Does it show that the absence of these organs has made them incapable of finding the wire bell in which the prisoner awaits them? Not at all. Like the shorn ones, whose operation has left them uninjured, they prove oidy that their time is up. Whether maimed or intact, they are unfit for duty because of their age; and their non-return is valueless as evidence. For lack of the time necessary for experi- menting, the part played by the antennae es- capes us. Doubtful it was and doubtful it remains. My caged prisoner lives for eight days. Every evening she draws for my benefit a swarm of visitors, in varying numbers, now to one part of the house, now to another, as I please. I catch them, as they come, with the net and transfer them, the moment they are captured, to a closed room, in which they spend the night. Next morning, I mark them with a tonsure on the thorax. The aggregate of the visitors during those eight evenings amounts to a hundred and fifty, an astounding number when I consider how hard 1 had to seek during the following; two years to collect the materials necessary for continuing these observations. Though 260. M-r.^ 5 ?^^^«;'i ^s^y'~ 3*^'^. 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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