Parasitic Hymenopterous Insects

Famous quotes containing the words parasitic and/or insects:

    “It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are like thin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.”
    —E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)