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clings to it and remains attached until the "nuptial flight", 

 when it seizes the opportunity to pass from the male to 

 the female and quietly waits until it lays its eggs. It 

 then leaps on the egg which serves as a support for it in 

 the honey, devours the egg in a few days and resting 

 on the shell undergoes its first metamorphosis, organized 

 now to float on the honey it consumes this provision of 

 nourishment and becomes a nymph, then a perfect insect. 



"Everything happens as if the larva of the sitaris, from 

 the moment it was hatched, knew that the male antho- 

 phora would first emerge from the passage. That the 

 "nuptial flight" would give it the means of conveying 

 itself to the female, who would take it to a store of honey 

 sufficient to feed it after its transformation, that until this 

 transformation it could gradually eat the egg of the an- 

 thophora, in such a way that it could at the same time 

 feed itself. And all this happens as if the sitaris itself 

 knew that its larva would know all these things. 



"The yellow Sphex, which has adopted the cricket for 

 its victim, knows that the cricket has three nerve centers, 

 which serve its three pairs of legs, or at least it acts as if 

 it knew this. It stings the insect first under the neck, then 

 behind the pro-thorax and then where the thorax joins 

 the abdomen. Is it not plain that life goes on to work 

 here exactly like consciousness, exactly like memory?" 



Mr. Bergson is compelled to admit that the actions of 

 these insects show the same intellect as the actions of 

 conscious man. However, we find that nearly all writers 

 now agree that there is no difference between instinctive 

 and intelligent acts. I maintain first that intelligence 

 and instinct are one and the same thing; second, that the 

 cells as well as animals and plants show the same in- 

 stincts. 



If you transfer any black bee to Australia or California, 



