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Social Life in the Insect World

CHAPTER III
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As the sun moves, and with it the shadow, they also move round the branch with slow lateral steps, so as to keep upon that side which is most brilliantly illuminated, most fiercely heated.

Whether the proboscis is at work or not the song is never interrupted.
Now are we to take their interminable chant for a passionate love-song?
I hesitate.

In this gathering the two sexes are side by side.

One does not spend months in calling a person who is at one's elbow.

Moreover, I have never seen a female rush into the midst of even the most deafening orchestra.


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