. The sacred beetle, and others [microform]. Beetles; Coléoptères. I :â <. The Sacred Beetle and Others I hear the tools rasping against the unyield- ing wall; then silence follows and not a prisoner survives to tell the tale. The mother too perishes in that home which has remained dry when the season for dryness has passed. The Copris, like the Sacred Beetle, needs the rain tc soften the granite shell. To return to the liberated ones. When the emergence is effected, the mother, we were saying, ceases to trouble about them. Her present indifference, however, must not make us forget the wo
. The sacred beetle, and others [microform]. Beetles; Coléoptères. I :â <. The Sacred Beetle and Others I hear the tools rasping against the unyield- ing wall; then silence follows and not a prisoner survives to tell the tale. The mother too perishes in that home which has remained dry when the season for dryness has passed. The Copris, like the Sacred Beetle, needs the rain tc soften the granite shell. To return to the liberated ones. When the emergence is effected, the mother, we were saying, ceases to trouble about them. Her present indifference, however, must not make us forget the wonderful care which she has lavished for four months on end. Out- side the Social Hymenoptera â Bees, Wasps, Ants and so on â who spoon-feed their young and bring them up according to scrupulously hygienic methods, where in the insect world shall we find another example of such maternal self-abnc .ration, of such wise and tender care for the offspring? I know of none . How did the Copris acquire this lotty quality, which I would readily call a moral quality, if morality and nescience had any point of contact? How did she learn to surpass in tenderness the Bee and the Artt, both so greatly renowned? I say surpass. The mother Bee, indeed, is simply a germ- 246. 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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