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Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



CATERPILLAR HUNTERS 



The caterpillar hunter (Fig. 198) is a long- 

 legged beetle with powerful long hooked jaws. 

 The caterpillar hunter is fond of canker-worms 

 and if we had enough caterpillar hunters to eat up 

 the canker-worms, we could save many of our fruit 

 trees from destruction, and, if all you boys learned 

 to know these useful beetles, you could do much 



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to prevent thoughtless people from thinking them 

 to be harmful and killing them as bugs. 



There is little danger of people killing many, 

 if any, of the bright-colored Tiger beetles which 

 run ahead of you on the dusty or sandy shore, be- 

 cause these gaudy meat-eaters are very difficult to 

 capture even witli a net, but some of the ground 



