Now what comes of this treatment? Nothing at all. I wait a day or two to give the injected fluids time to diffuse and act. The Cetonia is then presented to the Scorpion. Veil your face, O foolish physiologist: the creature perishes as it would have done before your presumptuous attempts at surgery. We cannot manipulate animals as we can the reagents of chemistry. [[111]]
[1] Cf. The Life of the Caterpillar: chaps. i to vi.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[2] The grub of the Cockchafer.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[3] This is Z. Æsculi, also known as the Wood Leopard Moth.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[4] The Diptera are the order of insects comprising the Flies, Mosquitoes, Gnats and Fleas.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[5] The Hymenoptera are the order including the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Ichneumon-flies, Sawflies, Gall-flies, etc.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[6] The order comprising the Grasshoppers, Locusts, Crickets, Cockroaches, Mantes and Earwigs.—Translator’s Note. [↑]