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on the wing, It is curious to observe how 
artfully the moths knows how to profit to the 
disadvantage of the Bees, which require 
much light for seeing objects, and the pre- 
cautions taken by the latter, in reconnoiter- 
ing and expelling so dangerous an enemy. 
Like vigilant sentinels they patrol around 
ther habitations with their antenne stretched 
out straight before them, or turning to the 
right and left; woe to the moth, if it cannot 
escape their contact; it tries to glide along 
between the guards, carefully avoiding their 
flexible organs, as if aware that its safety 
depended on its caution. 
CHAPTER YV. 
TASTE. 
In Bees, taste appears, on aslight view, to 
differ most materially from that sensein man, 
and because, with all their eager fondness for 
