Capitolo 61
the pure lightness of heart and the childish frivolity. An Indian mantis or
bug that prays, a few less bad although anybody less cruel that the
spiders, deceive the flies that come to its arm under the forgery
pretense to be a calm leaf on which they can turn on in safety for
rest and refreshment. He/she anchors another member abandoned of the same family,
audaciously counting on the resources of tropical nature, it is found on as
a complete orchid, the head and fangs that are shaped in the exact image
of the beautiful flower and the arm that untrustworthily fold up around the
unhappy bug that risks him to look for for honey in his/her deceptive jaws.
The tyrants and assassins don't have however always, happily things
all their his/her own way. Sometimes the turn of harmless prey the tables on
their tormentors with separate success. For example, the Mr. Wallace
observed some kind of sand-wasp, in Borneo very determined to devouring
crickets; but there was a kind of cricket that precisely reproduced
the characteristics of the sand-wasps, and mixed among them on equal terms
without fear of the discovery. The Mr. Belt saw a green leaf-as locust in
Nicaragua, overflows looking for ants in search of meat for supper, but
being perfectly immovable the whole duration, and evidently him been wrong from
the hungry foragers for a true piece of the foliage it the mimicked. Then
entirely it made this innocent locust understands the necessity for
still remaining, and faking to be a leaf under all anticipates him that
also when her Mr. Belt not the takings never above in his/her hands a thumb moved him, but
valiantly preserved his/her rigid leaf-as attitude. As the other bugs
'imitation dead', this clever creature pretended vegetable.
To understand as cases likes these they start to rise, we owe
you remember that before all of them they start some necessity from a lot of disdains and
indefinite similarities that succeed as are from accident in
eluding every now and then the vigilance of enemies. There is so, baton
bugs that only they seem round and long cylinders, not evidently