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SOME NOXIOUS INSECTS. 



our benefactors. But if some clever gardener were 

 to develop the stinging nettle into a garden vege- 

 table, the beautiful Tortoiseshell, Atalanta, and Peacock 

 butterflies would be placed among our noxious insects, 

 inasmuch as their larvae feed upon the plant. Perhaps 



BUTTERFLIES. 



the gardeners of Dreepdailie, who, according to Andrew 

 Fairservice, cultivated that vegetable under forcing 

 glasses, held precisely the same opinion of the insects. 



There are several insects to which all civilised nations 

 confess themselves indebted. The bee, for example, 



