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THE LIFE OF AN INSECT. 



to do but eat, which he does not long delay doing. 

 He devours at his ease, and revels in the dainty 

 fresh food which the care of his parent had laid 

 up. When he has eaten all his prisoners up, 

 and grown to his full size, he lays down to sleep, 

 to awake again in another and a far different 

 form. 



Sometimes the reader may have the opportunity, 

 it may be, of finding out the nest of the wood - 

 boring wasp, and he may in June or July, perhaps, 

 succeed in discovering another instance of a larva 

 in a happy state of plenty. 

 The larva is sure to be 

 found at the bottom, and 

 above it will be piled a 

 heap of insects for its food. 

 What is remarkable about 

 this store of food is, that 

 the insects thus made 

 prisoners are not dead, for 

 they would, if so, soon 

 become corrupted, and 

 unfit for the diet of the 

 larva; they are in a sort 



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