non-horny

Updated: May 11, 2025

In a non-horny victim, the quick chemical changes of the tissues are even more striking. A Cetonia grub, which resists the scorpion's sting, even though repeatedly administered, dies in a very short time if I inject a tiny drop of my terrible fluid into any part of its body. Moreover, it turns very brown and, in a couple of days, becomes a mass of black putrescence.

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