XI THE SCIENCE OF INSTINCT 163 



The bruises consequent may have hastened its end. 

 As for the other, exempt from accidents, it lived six 

 weeks. As the nourishment offered, sugar and water, 

 could not indefinitely replace the natural food, it is 

 very probable that it would have lived longer still had 

 its customary diet been available. Thus the point 

 which I had in view is demonstrated : victims pierced 

 by the sting of the Hymenopteron die from inanition 

 and not of their wound. 



