AFTER PLANTING, WHAT? 



In addition to lessons in plant life we have the 

 story of the whole society of animal life that 

 gathers in the garden. Toad and worm have 

 their story as well as insect and bird. Insect life 

 is good or bad, beneficial or injurious. 



Among insects, the helpful lady-bug; the harm- 

 ful aphis or plant louse; the useful scavenger 

 beetle, and the destructive potato bug; the striped 

 beetle that troubles squash and tomatoes; the 

 curious click beetle and the voracious cutworm 

 and wire worm will demand attention. The 

 cabbage butterfly will in a few short weeks give 

 a typical life history in a completed round. 

 It also will illustrate 

 the reason why each 

 year as a nation we 

 lose so many millions 

 of dollars through in- ^"^^^" ^^'^^""'^^ ^°^'^° 

 sect depredations, and why we need the birds 

 to help us keep down their number. The parsley 

 worm and tomato worm will develop for us into 

 beautiful fliers, one a brilliant-edged swallow-tail 

 butterfly, and the other a superb moth. On milk- 

 weed may be found the caterpillar of the vivid 

 Monarch butterfly, known in some places as the 

 "Princeton" because of its yellow and black. 

 1 he bee, from a safe vantage point, may be 

 studied as he visits the flowers and carries the 

 pollen from one gay flag to another hung out 



♦ See Appendix A, Note 12, for check list of 34 common butter- 

 flies. 



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