asphalty

Updated: May 6, 2025

Why should we not regard it as the cause of the black tint when the maggots have liquefied the boletes which turn blue? The others, those with the white flesh, the edible bolete, for instance, do not assume this asphalty appearance once they are liquefied by the grubs.

Jean-Henri Fabre - The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography