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Social Life in the Insect World

CHAPTER XIII
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The carnivorous grub is killed by honey.

Is the honey-fed grub, inversely, killed by carnivorous diet?
Here, again, we must make certain exceptions, observe a certain choice, as in the previous experiments.

It would obviously be courting a flat refusal to offer a heap of young crickets to the larvae of the Anthophorus and the Osmia, for example; the honey-fed grub would not bite such food.

It would be absolutely useless to make such an experiment.

We must find the equivalent of the bee smeared with honey; that is, we must offer the larva its ordinary food with a mixture of animal matter added.


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