In the Guiana Forest Studies of Nature in Relation to the Struggle for Life
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The plant might perhaps have lived with- out such tenants, but it is most probable that its flourishing condition was mainly due to these little creatures. For, they were there with consent, and in return for house accommodation undertook to keep off the enemies of the orchid, of which the cockroach was one of the most inveterate. Why, then, were these pests allowed to be present ? We can only suppose that the attraction of the plant drew them, and that they had not yet been cap- tured. For it ...is not to be supposed that even this omnivorous insect will be deterred from attempting to get a delicious meal simply because PLANTS AND ANIMALS. 135 its enemies are in the fore. Again, was not that one of the reasons why the ants were so ready to take up their abode among the orchid roots? Where its food was to be found the cockroach would certainly come, and the ant as certainly find its prey. And what shall we say of the centipede? Like the ant it loves a fat cockroach, and was present in hopes of finding one.
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