IXSECT-ARCHITECTl RE. 





with generalities, lei as look at a fev instru 

 of insect archifc turo, beginning with the simpler and end- 

 ing with t h complex. 



Perhaps the first impulse of an insect in endeavoring 

 pe from so tcmy is to burrow in the 



aquatic in ita habits, to bury itself in the mud at the bot- 

 . oi' the pool or stream it inhabits. Such habil 



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Piq 827 I >ak leaf Fio. 228.— Oak-leaf rolled al the end. 



rolled sldewlae 



acquired and transmitted would lead a wood-eating or leaf- 

 gnawing inset to save its life by burrowing into and mining 

 leaves or Kirk, or even rolling over the edge of a leaf and 

 hiding under it: and such insects after a number of _ 

 nations, meeting with success in the struggle 



. without much doubt founded the insect-guili 

 may so style them, of masons, carpenters, and build 



When we consider how many kinds of leaf- 

 are among different orders of insects, we may | 

 regard this as the readiest and mosl sim] 

 forming a shelter. Among the caterpillars ■ <m 



moths there are multitudes which roll up | * of the 



leaf, whole leaves, ot even hind several - ther 



with silken cords, How this is done mav be seen l>v 



