The Mason-bee's grub is therefore emptied by the Leucopsis 'larva while it is in a semifluid state and deep in the torpor of the nymphosis. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
For the nymphosis it installs itself near the surface in a flattened, oval cell, which is prolonged at the back by the wandering-gallery, firmly packed with wormed wood, and in front by a short, slightly curved vestibule. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
This elbow changing the direction occurs whenever the larva ascends from the depths; it is very short when the nymphosis-chamber is next to the surface, but continues for some length when the chamber is well inside the trunk. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
Need I add that the grub lies down and goes to sleep, for the nymphosis, with its head against the door? ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
Having made these preparations, the larva withdraws, strengthening the wooden screen, however, with a layer of fine sawdust; it reaches the end of the round gallery, which is prolonged by the completely choked flat gallery; and here, scorning a special chamber or any upholstery, it goes to sleep for the nymphosis, with its head towards the exit. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
Indeed, since this basic experiment I have discovered grains of uric acid in the adipose tissue of the larvæ of all the Hunting Wasps of our parts, as well as in the Bees at the moment of the nymphosis. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
The development of the nymphosis is so correct that for a moment the crazy hope occurs to me that I may see a Turnip-moth come out of this mummy, the victim of a dozen dagger-thrusts. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
And so the nonparalyzed larvae are attacked during the period of the nymphosis. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
At the bottom of this pseudochrysalidal sheath I find a little white wad which, when placed in water, softened and then patiently unravelled with the tip of a paint-brush, yields a white, powdery substance, which is uric acid, the usual product of the work of the nymphosis, and a rumpled membrane, in which I recognize the cast skin of the nymph. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
In the heart of the wood the larva finally scoops out the chamber destined for the nymphosis. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
If the larva had taken the precaution to place itself in a different direction when preparing for the nymphosis, to turn its head towards the nearest point of the bark instead of turning it lengthwise with the trunk, obviously the adult would escape more easily: he would merely have to gnaw straight in front of him in order to pass through the minimum thickness. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
The bottom of the well, better wrought than the rest and ceiled with the aid of an adhesive fluid which holds the fine sawdust of the stopper in place, is a thing of the present; it is the nymphosis-chamber. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
The gallery is masked on the outside by a remnant of bark or wood, hardly a millimetre thick, [2] and widens, not far from the surface, into a nymphosis-chamber, which is divided from the burrow by a mass of packed sawdust. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
Then, retracing its steps, it blocks the passage with a barricade of coarse packed shavings; and, at a depth of about eight inches, not far from the heart of the tree, it hollows out a cavity for the nymphosis without any particular upholstering. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
To prepare the door of exit in advance is not enough; the grub must also provide for the tranquillity essential to the delicate processes of nymphosis. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
The dissimilarity is yet more marked in the preparations for the nymphosis. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
In the vast majority of insects subject to metamorphoses, the hatching yields the larval form which will remain unchanged until the nymphosis. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
When the time of the nymphosis comes, the Halictus mother goes to the cells rifled by the parasite and closes them with an earthen plug as carefully as she does the rest. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
But, if easy paths are necessary to the insect, protective ramparts are no less needed for the safety of the nymphosis; and the larva plugs the liberating channel with a fine paste of masticated wood, very different from the ordinary sawdust. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
Since direct exposure to the sun, owing to the excess of heat, is fatal to the delicate process of the nymphosis, I shaded the solar rays with a screen of water contained between slips of glass; and to the bright light thus moderated in temperature I daily, throughout the period of chromatic evolution, subjected a number of Sacred Beetles, Geotrupes and ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
