![]() ![]() Souvenirs entomologiques, 7 th series, p. 374, Paris, Delagrave, 1925. "Are there (.) effluvia similar to what we call odour, effluvia of extreme subtlety, absolutely imperceptible to ourselves ? ” Yet when housed in a sealed tin, she attracts no males at all.”įollowing these observations, Fabre wonders: ![]() “The male, equipped with highly developed antennae, is capable of locating a female within a radius of up to ten kilometres.”ĭuring the work he conducted in his study, Fabre observed that a female Great Peacock Moth, born that morning and “forthwith cloister (.) under a wire-gauze bell-jar,” attracts, in one evening, some forty males “coming from every direction”. Fabre also took an interest in the reproductive behaviour of butterflies, and in particular that of the Great Peacock Moth. ![]()
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