If any one of my readers, to whom I appealed just now, has thought out something better than the Eumenes’ invention, I beg that he will let me know, for there is a curious parallel to be drawn between the inspirations of reason and those of instinct. [[28]]
[1] I include three species promiscuously under this one name, that is to say, E. pomiformis, Fabr., E. bipunctis, Sauss., and E. dubius, Sauss. As I did not distinguish between them in my first investigations, which date a very long time back, it is not possible for me to-day to attribute to each of them its respective nest. But their habits are the same, for which reason this confusion does not injure the order of ideas in the present chapter.—Author’s Note. [↑]
[2] The Grey Worm is the caterpillar of Noctua segetum, the Dart or Turnip Moth. It is hunted by the Hairy Ammophila, for whom cf. The Hunting Wasps, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. xviii.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[3] Cf. The Hunting Wasps: passim; Insect Life, by J. H. Fabre, translated by the author of Mademoiselle Mori: chaps. iii. to xii., xiv. to xvii. and xix.; The Life and Love of the Insect, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chaps. xi. to xii.; and Social Life of the Insect World, by J. H. Fabre, translated by Bernard Miall: chap. xiii.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[4] Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, the Roman architect and engineer.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[5] Cf. The Mason-bees, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chaps. i. to iii. et passim.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[6] .63 inch to .7 inch.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[7] .12 inch.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[8] Also known as the Measuring-worm, the caterpillar of the Geometrid Moth.—Translator’s Note. [↑]