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...scientific voyeur. He has spent the better part of the past three years spying on the love life of Germany's two native glowworms. The males of the Lampyris noctiluca family, he reports with apparent approval, are choosy in picking their mates. The males of Phausis splendidula are as undiscriminating as sailors home from...
Fickle Failing. Phausis splendidula males are made of far less discriminating stuff. Besides mating properly with Phausis females, they go for almost anything that shows a light. They have been known to try unsuccessfully for hours to mate with Lampyris females. They respond to dummies with lights that are unnatural red or blue, and they seem to prefer a dummy with a lure that is bigger or brighter than normal. Phausis females, also, are less resourceful than their Lampyris relatives. No matter how long they go unmated, they never wiggle their abdomens. Dr. Schaller believes that such Phausis dullness keeps...
...Gulf of Salerno, or shall it mingle its rays with the northern aurora up among the fields of Norway, or shall it be borne across the Atlantic and reach the banks of the Charles, where Agassiz and Wyman have taught, where Hagen still teaches, glowing like his own Lampyris splendidula with enthusiasm, where the first of American botanists and the ablest of American surgeons are still counted in the roll of honor of our great university? - [Dr. Holmes...
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