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female was compensated by possessing a far stronger jaw. 
Then, by one of his ingenious contrivances, he showed the bee’s 
jaws working. In case any of his audience should be troubled 
by having their rose trees used too extensively as a quarry by 
the leaf-cutter bee, Mr. Enock gave the useful “tip” that all 
they had to do to protect the trees was to plant a border of six 
inches of ‘golden feather,’ which this bee will on no account 
cross. So intently has Mr. Enock studied the bee that he 
assured his audience he could tell the hum of one kind of bee 
from another, and he explained how, in one instance, he 
was successful in catching a rare kind of bee through having 
his attention arrested by the note of its hum, which he had not 
heard before. 
The life history of the tiger beetle (family Coleoptera), of 
which some more wonderful illustrations followed, took Mr. 
Enock fifteen years to find out. He explained it to his audience 
in about an hour. One of the cleverest of his mechanical 
adjustments of slides showed the tiger beetle springing at its 
prey, and dragging it down into its hole. 
Mr. Enock was careful to impress on his audience that 
anyone with perseverance and ordinary intelligence can watch 
for themselves the life-work of the wonderful little creatures he 
had been speaking of. Each year he felt himself more impressed 
with our ‘‘ miserable ignorance’’ of insect life. In museums we 
had thousands of specimens of insects stored, but naturalists 
knew the life history of very few indeed. 
