Book 24. (7 results) Vagabonds of Gor (Context Quote)
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214
As a result of the regularity of breeding and incubation times there tends, also, to be peak times for hatching.
17
215
These peak times are also in part, it is thought, a function of a combination of natural factors, having to do with conditions in the delta, such as temperature and humidity, and, in particular, the relative stability of such conditions.
17
216
Such hatching times, as might be supposed, are carefully monitored by rencers.
17
217
Once outside the delta the sting flies, which spend most of their adult lives as solitary insects, tend to disperse.
17
218
Of the millions of sting flies hatched in the delta each summer, usually over a period of four or five days, a few return each fall, to begin the cycle again.
17
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"Ai!" cried another fellow, stung.
17
220
Then I heard others cry out in pain, and begin to strike about them.
As a result of the regularity of breeding and incubation times there tends, also, to be peak times for hatching.
These peak times are also in part, it is thought, a function of a combination of natural factors, having to do with conditions in the delta, such as temperature and humidity, and, in particular, the relative stability of such conditions.
Such hatching times, as might be supposed, are carefully monitored by rencers.
Once outside the delta the sting flies, which spend most of their adult lives as solitary insects, tend to disperse.
Of the millions of sting flies hatched in the delta each summer, usually over a period of four or five days, a few return each fall, to begin the cycle again.
"Ai!" cried another fellow, stung.
Then I heard others cry out in pain, and begin to strike about them.
- (Vagabonds of Gor, Chapter )