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They are little white grubs, neatly segmented, with a pointed forepart splashed with tiny black marks, as though the atom had been slaking its thirst in a drop of ink.

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander