. The sacred beetle, and others [microform]. Beetles; Coléoptères. im^kd {*• 9 . ^. The Sacred Beetle and Others The result of my sprinkling soon becomes apparent. In a few days' time, now in one jar, now in another, the pills, properly soft- ened, open and fall to pieces under the prisoners' efforts. The new-born Copns ap- pears and sits down, with his mother, to the food which I have placed at his disposal. When the hermit, stiffeninjj; his legs and humping his back, tries to split the ceding that presses down on him, does the mother come to his assistance by delivering an assault from t
. The sacred beetle, and others [microform]. Beetles; Coléoptères. im^kd {*• 9 . ^. The Sacred Beetle and Others The result of my sprinkling soon becomes apparent. In a few days' time, now in one jar, now in another, the pills, properly soft- ened, open and fall to pieces under the prisoners' efforts. The new-born Copns ap- pears and sits down, with his mother, to the food which I have placed at his disposal. When the hermit, stiffeninjj; his legs and humping his back, tries to split the ceding that presses down on him, does the mother come to his assistance by delivering an assault from the outside ? It is quite possible. The watcher, hitherto so careful of her brood, so attentive to what Is happening within the piils, can hardly fail to hear the sounds made by the captive in his struggles to emerge. We have seen her indefatigably stopping the holes caused by my indiscretion; we have seen her, often enough, restoring for the grub's greater safety the pill which I had opened with my penknife. Fitted by instinct for repairing and building, why should she not be fitted f^>r demolishing? However, 1 will make no assertions, for 1 have been un- able to see. The favourable con-': ^' x'.a always escaped me: I .ame either too late or too early. And then let us not foi^et Jvff the admission of Ught usually Interrupts tt e work. 244 '^^^^Sm. 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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