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Entomology
Entomology is the study of insects.
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Some 200 miles south of Gadau, where the climate is less severe, morsitans still has to vacate log sites in the dry season and breeds in the riverine vegetation of stream-beds together with tachinoides and palpalis. Still farther south, and approaching the forest belt, morsitans breeds under small, deciduous, umbrella-like Gardenia erubescens bushes in the savannah, until the grass fires destroy the leaves when the female larviposits under small thickets of evergreen Combretrum micranthum in ero
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Modern science has since discovered the positive effect of an infusion of salt on the nervous system, and for lactating mammals, but a tiny male moth with a huge appetite for salt also seems to back the notions of the ancient Greeks--- that salt is a key ingredient for successful sex.
The male Gluphisia moth spends most of his short life accumulating enough salt to give his mate a nuptial gift of sodium.
This act is achieved by "puddling," or sucking from pools of standing water or moist ground
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― The Best American Food Writing 2023: Eye-Opening Essays on Culture, Inequality, and Justice
― The Best American Food Writing 2023: Eye-Opening Essays on Culture, Inequality, and Justice
