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  • THE SACRED BEETLE: THE GRUB, THE METAMORPHOSIS, THE HATCHING-CHAMBER

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-sacred-beetle-the-grub-the-metamorphosis-the-hatching-chamber.


    An enormous hump and a trowel: that gives you the animal in two words.
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    The hatching-chamber is an oval recess about one centimetre1 in diameter. The egg is fixed at the bottom of this recess. It is cylindrical in shape, rounded at both ends, yellowish-white in colour and having nearly the bulk of a grain of wheat, but shorter. The inner wall of the recess is plastered with a greenish-brown matter, shiny, half-fluid, a real cream destined to form the first mouthfuls of the grub. In order to produce this delicate fare, does the mother select the quintessence of the ordure? The appearance of the mess tells me differently and assures me that it is a broth elaborated in the maternal stomach. The Pigeon softens the corn in her crop and turns it into a sort of milk-diet which she afterwards disgorges for her brood. The Dung-beetle has the same fond ways: she half-digests selected viands and disgorges them as a fine pap, with which she hangs the walls of the nest wherein her egg is laid. In this manner, the grub, when hatched, finds an easily-digested food that soon strengthens its stomach and allows it to attack the underlying layers, which are less daintily prepared.

    30 min
  • The Greatest Story Ever Sold

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-greatest-story-ever-sold.


    Come on a journey to a future where virtual worlds as just as real as the one we're in.
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    You are a high-ranking officer of the Rebellion that has managed to stay anonymous for quite some time. You can hear what he hears, see what he sees, and feel what he feels, but you can not influence any of the decisions he makes. Your host is wearing a military uniform wearing a worn-out sniper rifle. As the rebel vehicles start appearing on the horizon, your host takes one final look at the brief image of his target.

    18 min
  • A young shepherd

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    A poor touch hers, rudely clad in horn, yet not insensible, after all, to nicely-drawn outlines!
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    A young shepherd, who had been told in his spare time to watch the doings of the Sacred Beetle, came to me in high spirits, one Sunday, in the second half of June, to say that he thought the time had come to commence a search. He had detected the insect issuing from the ground, had dug at the spot where it made its appearance and had found, at no great depth, the queer thing which he was bringing me.
    Queer it was and calculated to upset the little which I thought I knew. In shape, it was exactly like a tiny pear that had lost all the colour of its freshness and turned brown in rotting. What could this curious object be, this pretty plaything that seemed to come from a turner’s workshop? Was it made by human hands? Was it a model of the fruit of the pear-tree intended for some child’s collection? One would say so.

    22 min
  • The Life and Love of the Insect by Jean-Henri Fabre - Table of Links

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-life-and-love-of-the-insect-by-jean-henri-fabre-table-of-links.


    The Life and Love of the Insect by Jean-Henri Fabre is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

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    The Life and Love of the Insect by Jean-Henri Fabre is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!
    Title: The Life and Love of the Insect
    Author: Jean-Henri Fabre
    Translator: Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
    Release date: September 11, 2022 [eBook #68974]
    Language: English

    3 min
  • From Breach to Fallout: The Story of the 2014 Sony Hack

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/from-breach-to-fallout-the-story-of-the-2014-sony-hack.


    Delve into the gripping account of the Sony Hack 2014, exploring the cyber attack's journey from initial breach to widespread fallout.
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    Sony Pictures Entertainment was hacked by a group of hackers. The group demanded Sony to withdraw its upcoming film - The Interview, A comedy about a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. After evaluating the software, techniques, and network sources used in the hack, United States intelligence officials alleged that the attack was sponsored by the government of North Korea.

    9 min
  • INSECTS AND MUSHROOMS

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/insects-and-mushrooms.


    It is superfluous to continue this method of investigation: the reply would be everywhere the same.
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    It were out of place to recall my long relations with the bolete and the agaric if the insect did not here enter into a question of grave interest. Several mushrooms are edible, some even enjoy a great reputation; others are formidable poisons. Short of botanical studies that are not within everybody's reach, how are we to distinguish the harmless from the venomous? There is a widespread belief which says that any mushroom which insects, or, more frequently, their larvae, their grubs, accept can be accepted without fear; any mushroom which they refuse must be refused. What is wholesome food for them cannot fail to be the same for us; what is poisonous to them is bound to be equally baneful to ourselves. This is how people argue, with apparent logic, but without reflecting upon the very different capabilities of stomachs in the matter of diet. After all, may there not be some justification for the belief? That is what I purpose examining.

    28 min
  • RECOLLECTIONS OF CHILDHOOD

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/recollections-of-childhood.


    A miller has bethought him of putting the brook, which used to flow so gaily through the fields, to work.
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    Almost as much as insects and birds—the former so dear to the child, who loves to rear his cockchafers and rose beetles on a bed of hawthorn in a box pierced with holes; the latter an irresistible temptation, with their nests and their eggs and their little ones opening tiny yellow beaks—the mushroom early won my heart with its varied shapes and colors. I can still see myself as an innocent small boy sporting my first braces and beginning to know my way through the cabalistic mazes of my reading book, I see myself in ecstasy before the first bird's nest found and the first mushroom gathered. Let us relate these grave events. Old age loves to meditate the past.

    17 min
  • A PARASITE OF THE MAGGOT

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/a-parasite-of-the-maggot.


    I crush in a few drops of water a joint of the tail taken from the front portion, far from the poison glands
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    The dangers of the exhumation are not the only ones; the Bluebottle must be acquainted with others. Life, when all is said, is a knacker's yard wherein the devourer of today becomes the devoured of tomorrow; and the robber of the dead cannot fail to be robbed of her own life when the time comes. I know that she has one exterminator in the person of the tiny Saprinus beetle, a fisher of fat sausages on the edge of the pools formed by liquescent corpses. Here swarm in common the grubs of the greenbottle, the flesh fly and the bluebottle. The Saprinus draws them to him from the bank and gobbles them indiscriminately. They represent to him morsels of equal value.

    26 min
  • THE BLUEBOTTLE: THE GRUB

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-bluebottle-the-grub.


    The value of chemist's pepsin is estimated by the quantity of hard-boiled white of egg which a gram of that agent can liquefy.
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    The larvae of the bluebottle hatch within two days in the warm weather. Whether inside my apparatus, in direct contact with the piece of meat, or outside, on the edge of a slit that enables them to enter, they set to work at once. They do not eat, in the strict sense of the word, that is to say, they do not tear their food, do not chew it by means of implements of mastication. Their mouth parts do not lend themselves to this sort of work. These mouth parts are two horny spikes, sliding one upon the other, with curved ends that do not face, thus excluding the possibility of any function such as seizing and grinding.

    26 min
  • THE BLUEBOTTLE: THE LAYING

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-bluebottle-the-laying.


    This caution on the fly's part does not at all surprise me: motherhood everywhere has gleams of great perspicacity.
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    To purge the earth of death's impurities and cause deceased animal matter to be once more numbered among the treasures of life there are hosts of sausage queens, including, in our part of the world, the bluebottle (Calliphora vomitaria, LIN.) and the checkered flesh fly (Sarcophaga carnaria, LIN.). Every one knows the first, the big, dark-blue fly who, after effecting her designs in the ill-watched meat safe, settles on our window panes and keeps up a solemn buzzing, anxious to be off in the sun and ripen a fresh emission of germs. How does she lay her eggs, the origin of the loathsome maggot that battens poisonously on our provisions, whether of game or butcher's meat? What are her stratagems and how can we foil them? This is what I propose to investigate.

    28 min

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