Honey-Dew. 



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BLOSSOM OF CUCURBITA. 

 Mother-Aphis and Her Army of Children on Tube. 



Here, it was apparent, was a most wonderful manifestation 

 of intelligent design. The newly-born, needing the mother's 

 earliest attention, were in closest proximity, while the almost 

 mature were the farthest removed from her essential 

 presence. 



All this seemed to indicate the dearest relationship sub- 

 sisting between mother and offspring, but judging from out- 

 ward appearances, little, if any, love existed. It is true that 

 maternal instinct, which is seldom so far gone as to shut its 

 ears to the beseechings of suffering offspring for food, was 

 far from being absent. Instances of its presence were 

 momentarily noted. 



But a stimulus seemed, in some cases, quite necessary to 

 its manifestation. There were times when the honey-glands 

 acted without any provocation. It was only, however, when 



