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Social Life in the Insect World

CHAPTER IV
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The openings in the rind of the twig are practically equidistant, since each time the Cigale moves upward it is by a given length, namely, that of the ovipositor.

Very rapid in flight, she is a very idle walker.

At the most you may see her, on the living twig from which she is drinking, moving at a slow, almost solemn pace, to gain a more sunny point close at hand.

On the dry twig in which she deposits her eggs she observes the same formal habits, and even exaggerates them, in view of the importance of the operation.

She moves as little as possible, just so far as she must in order to avoid running two adjacent egg-chambers into one.


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