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second lot of eggs. One or the other of 

 these undeveloped forms of these insects, 

 or perhaps all three of them, in separate 

 places and under varying circumstances, 

 will last through the cold months and be 

 ready, if they be eggs, to hatch out at their 

 proper time in the next spring, or, if they 

 be grubs or chrysalids, to develop into 

 imagos, or full-fledged insects. 



One who searches for insect eggs in 

 January may find them in almost every 

 conceivable place — glued to bark and 

 twigs ; hidden away beneath the bark, 

 among fallen leaves, and in piles of de- 

 caying rubbish, at the bottom of holes in 

 wood or the ground, drilled for the pur- 

 pose by their careful parents ; or hatching 

 in the bodies of other insects or larvae. 



As for the grubs, their winter sleeping- 

 places are equally varied and innumer- 

 able. A large v^ariety of beetle grubs in- 

 habit holes in the soil below the frost- 

 line, where they feed upon roots, when 

 they feed at all. Another large class, 

 hatching from eggs placed in wood, either 

 rotten or solid, gnaw a chamber for them- 

 selves, and remain dormant there until 

 the time comes to make their escape ; 

 others dwell in heaps of manure or rotting 

 vegetation, or loose sand. Some of them 

 seem to care little for protection from 

 cold, and keep wide awake when most of 

 their neighbors are dormant. The vel- 

 vety larvse of the American fireflies of the 

 Telephorid family are often seen wander- 



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