CHAPTER SIXTEEN 



DEAD-BEAT STYLOPS. WEEVILS. PEA WEEVILS AND OTHER 

 EVILS. BALTIMORE ORIOLE'S FONDNESS FOR GRUB OF 

 THE PEA WEEVIL. GOAT- OR CAPRICORN-BEETLES. LEAF- 

 BEETLES. POTATO-BUGS. ELM-BEETLES. UNDESIRABLE 

 CITIZENS AND LADY-BUGS 



DEAD-BEAT STYLOPS 



The Stylops is a warning to all such people as 

 have a desire to live on someone else, to sponge on 

 someone else for a living in place of paddling their 

 own canoe. The Stylops is a degraded dead-beat 

 and a criminal among insects. Take a look at 

 Fig. 225 and ask yourself how you would like to 

 be Stylopized. I want you particularly to look at 

 the intelligent (?) graceful (?) and fascinating (?) 

 form of the female Stylops (Fig. 226). You see 

 she does not need brains, she does not need feet 

 or antennae, she needs nothing but a digestive tube 

 because she lives inside the body of a bee (Fig. 

 227) and the bee has to do all the work and all 

 the fighting. 



When the Stylops is young it has legs and 

 can run, but it chooses the life of a dead-beat 

 and the dead-beat life has degraded it. 



The young are hatched inside the body of the 



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