CHAPTEE IV. 



FOOD AND DEATH OF THE IMAGO. 



BUT we have something to say about the food 

 of insects. Although it has been already laid 

 down as a general rule, that insects in their per- 

 fect state, do not eat in any degree with the 

 voracity they exhibit in the larva form, it is 

 nevertheless true that they do both require and 

 devour food in considerable quantities, and of 

 various kinds. Some, for example, are exclusively 

 vegetable feeders. They attack all the parts of 

 plants, not excepting even the root and the bark. 

 Some, with an elegant taste, select the yellow 

 pollen of flowers for their dainty and delicate food. 

 And others, more refined still in their appetites, 

 will have nothing but the fresh distilled honey 

 that lies hid at the bottom of the flowers, pump- 

 ing it up by the beautiful spirally -coiled tube 



