26 INSECT BEHAVIOR 



the mercury reduces its myriad life until at length there is nothing 

 left. We witness the coming of the frosts, then the snows, exter- 

 minating all the little people that we have learned to know, for with 

 winter comes the temporary death of their world. A queer little 

 world that may be a fertile earth today and a barren moon tomorrow. 



