14 Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



where they were deposited. He knew that the 

 young were grub-worms that he used for bait when 

 fishing for sun-fish, and he found all this out by 

 watching the beetles themselves. He was very 

 much puzzled when he watched the female grape- 

 vine beetle deposit her eggs because the eggs were 

 such small objects compared to the beetles and 

 there were no little beetles; they all seemed to be 

 the same size, that is, all the light-colored female 



beetles were of one size and the darker colored 

 males a little smaller, but there were no baby sizes, 

 no half-grown sizes. 



The writer used these beetles for play horses, 

 hitched them up to little paper sleighs, fed them 

 on grape-vine leaves and kept what might be called 

 ** stables of them." There was another kind of 

 beetle of a brilliant metallic green that he had fre- 

 quently seen in the neighborhood of rotten stimips ; 

 this excited his curiosity and caused him to dig into 



