Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1914 — GLOW WORMS ANESTHETICS [ARTICLE]

GLOW WORMS ANESTHETICS

Before he begins to feast the glow •worm administers an anesthetic writes Henri Fabre in the Century* •He chloroforms bis victim, rivaling 4n the process the wonders of modern fsnrgery, which render the patient lnisqnsible before the surgeon operates lon'him. The naval gamuts a small E, hardly the size of a cherry, h in hot weather collects in era on the stiff stnbble and other

long, dry stalks by the roadßide, remaining there motionless, in profound meditation, throughout the scorching summer days. It is in some such resting place as this that *1 have often been privileged to light upon the lampyris banqueting on the prey which he had Just paralysed on its shaky support by his surgical artifices. ,/, r -v. " But he is familiar with other pre-

serves. He frequents the edges of thi irrigating ditches, with their cool soil, their varied vegetation, a favorite haunt of the mollusk. Here he treat! the game on the ground and, undei these conditions, it is easy for me to rear him at home and to follow the operator’s performance down to thi smallest detail.'