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Page 9
... odor filled the laboratory and welled over to the outside . Somewhere in the wide acres beyond , an egg- burdened blowfly cruised urgently about seeking a suitable place to lay her cream - colored cylindrical eggs . In her wan- dering ...
... odor filled the laboratory and welled over to the outside . Somewhere in the wide acres beyond , an egg- burdened blowfly cruised urgently about seeking a suitable place to lay her cream - colored cylindrical eggs . In her wan- dering ...
Page 26
... odors , and textures . With taste alone you are pretty much restricted to sweet , salt , sour , and bitter . The old adage that one can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar has a sound basis in physiology . Leaving aside for ...
... odors , and textures . With taste alone you are pretty much restricted to sweet , salt , sour , and bitter . The old adage that one can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar has a sound basis in physiology . Leaving aside for ...
Page 93
... odor decreased in intensity he turned back . Eventually he came to the fac- tory , by which time he was thoroughly sick of the odor of bubble gum . Insects employ air - borne odors to find food and mates . Fabre wrote admiringly of the ...
... odor decreased in intensity he turned back . Eventually he came to the fac- tory , by which time he was thoroughly sick of the odor of bubble gum . Insects employ air - borne odors to find food and mates . Fabre wrote admiringly of the ...
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