Therefore, Swammerdam has no foundation for asserting, that mutilated queens cease to lay.
But we have discovered a new part that escaped both him and Swammerdam, which appears from the following experiment.
Swammerdam gives a most accurate account of the method and situation in which the male impregnates the spawn of the female.
Swammerdam found a nest of this description attached to the stem of a nettle.
But Swammerdam appears only twice to have seen the expansion of the dragon-fly, in which this phenomenon is best observed.
