CHAPTER I. 



HISTORY OF INSECTS IN GENERAL. 



THE history of an insect, like the history of a man, is an 

 account of life from first to last, from birth to death. 

 Insects are so constituted, that the history of an individual 

 is the history of its race : climate, season or circum- 

 stance exercises but little power of creating differences 

 among them ; a bee is as essentially a bee, and a butterfly 

 a butterfly, at the equator as at the poles ; and in either si- 

 tuation performs the same acts. Insects of all kinds, and 

 in all situations, resemble each other in the following par- 

 ticulars : they proceed from the parent as eggs; the eggs 

 are hatched and become grubs, in which state they eat, 



