Excerpt from Morphology, Taxonomy, and Biology of Larval ScarabaeoideaThe family Passalidae, which inhabits decaying wood, is represented in tropical forests by numerous species but in North America by only one species, Passalus cornutus Fab. Some species of this family are of biological interest because of a certain degree of social organization ascribed to them, the adults being known to attend the larvae and care for them throughout their period of development to maturity. The adults chew the woody food and prepare it before feeding it to the larvae. The hastening of decay in rotten logs can be said to be a beneficial phase exhibited by this group of insects.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.