Note 2 — Chapter IV · THE LANGUEDOCIAN SCORPION: THE IMMUNITY OF LARVÆ
Bernard Miall translation
The result is the same with the Common Cockchafer. The stabbed insect dies in a few minutes; the White Worm,2 on the contrary, holds out, goes underground and climbs back to the surface to gnaw the lettuce-stalk which I have given it. If my patience as an insect-rearer did not tire, the victim of the accident, from which it quickly recovers, would become a Cockchafer, as may be seen from the paunch sleek and glossy with health.