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EYE SPY 



Again and again have I shaken or brushed 

 them off only to see them increase and multiply ; 

 and, on the other hand, on more than one occa- 

 sion have I seen an entire swarm vanish from a 

 particular twig which I knew was infested only a 

 day or two previous. Why? It was not that the 



aphides had completed their growth and died or 

 fled. A careful examination among the young 

 leaves or along the stem in their neighborhood 

 showed the author of the havoc, a fat aphis lion, 

 perhaps, in the act of sucking the contents of 

 its last victim, or, perhaps, having completed his 

 growth, contemplating the commencement of his 

 cocoon in which to abide during the winter. 



