30 SOCIAL LIFE IN THE INSECT WORLD 



What would you say, worthy neighbours, if you knew 

 of the virtues of the larva, which is able to mix sufficient 

 mortar with its urine to build a meteorological station 

 and a shaft connecting with the outer world ? Your 

 powers should equal those of Rabelais' Gargantua, who, 

 seated upon the towers of Notre Dame, drowned so many 

 thousands of the inquisitive Parisians. 



