INSTINCT IN ANIMALS. 181 



works with the eye of the body must be blind 

 indeed if he cannot, and perverse indeed if he 

 will not, with the eye of the soul behold, in all 

 His glory, the Almighty Workman, and feel 

 disposed, with every power of his nature, to 

 praise and magnify Him. 



In speaking to you of insects, I wish to call 

 your attention to some facts which may serve to 

 illustrate their wonderful organisation and pecu- 

 liar instincts. Now, few things appear to me 

 more curious than the knowledge implanted in 

 female insects of the proper places in which to 

 deposit their eggs. Moths and butterflies choose 

 vegetables, such as cabbages, for this purpose, 

 and on which the young caterpillars, when 

 hatched, can feed ; while bees, wasps, hornets, 

 &c., make proper places for their eggs, and 

 bestow great pains in doing so. 



I have often watched a small wasp-like insect 

 make a hole in sand, or a gravel walk, and then 

 thrust a live caterpillar into it, depositing an 

 egg in the caterpillar. The top of the hole is 

 then covered up, and, when the egg is hatched, 

 the new-born grub feeds on the caterpillar, till 

 it assumes its perfect form, when it makes its 

 way out of its prison. This may appear to 



