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The Ladybird 413 



The Firefly 416 



The Ways of the Ant 419 



How to Make a Lubbock Ant-Nest 423 



The Ant-Nest and What May be Seen Within it 425 



The Mud-dauber 4^9 



The Yellow-jacket 432 



The Leaf -cutter Bee 43^ 



The Little Carpenter Bee 439 



The Bumblebee 44 2 



The Honey-bee 445 



The Honey-comb 45 l 



Industries of the Hive and the Observation Hive 453 



VII Other Invertebrate- A nimal Study 



The Garden Snail 458 



The Earthworm 4 62 



The Crayfish ' 4^ 6 



Daddy Longlegs, or Grandfather Greybeard 472 



Spiders 475 



The Funnel-web 477 



The Orb-web 478 



TheFilmy Dome 483 



Ballooning Spiders 484 



The White Crab-Spider 485 



How the Spider Mothers Take Care of their Young 487 



PART III 

 PLANT LIFE 



How to Begin the Study of Plants and Flowers 489 



How to Make Plants Comfortable 490 



How to Teach the Names of the Parts of a Flower 492 



Teach the Use of a Flower 493 



Flowers and Insect Partners 494 



The Relation of Plants to Geography 495 



Seed Germination 495 



I Wild-flower Study 



The Hepatica 496 



The Yellow Adder's Tongue 499 



Bloodroot 53 



The Trillium 506 



Dutchman's Breeches and Squirrel Corn 59 



Jack-in-the-Pulpit 512 



The Violet 5 ! 5 



The May Apple or Mandrake 5*9 



The Bluets 5 2 3 



The Yellow Lady's Slipper, or Moccasin Flower 5 2 5 



The Common Buttercup 5 2 8 



The Evening Primrose 53 



