Note 11 — Chapter V · THE CICADA: THE LAYING AND THE HATCHING OF THE EGGS
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
The young Sitaris-beetles,11 those other animated atoms, as soon as they issue from the egg at the entrance to the Anthophora’s12 galleries, remain in motionless heaps and spend the winter in complete abstinence. The little Cicadæ would appear to behave in much the same manner. Once buried in depths where there is no fear of frosts, they sleep, solitary, in their winter-quarters and await the return of spring before broaching some root near by and taking their first refreshment.