Contents 



CHAPTER IV continued 



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of Nature Busy Workers Doughty Warriors Models of 

 Cleanliness How the Ant-lion builds its Pit The Uses of 

 a Flat Head On Guard A Struggle in the Pit The 

 Curious Eggs of the Lacewing An Ingenious Disguise 



CHAPTER V 

 WOODWORKERS . . . . . .65 



An Expert Woodworker Superstition and a Beetle The 

 Taps of the Death-watch A Beetle Garden The Connoisseur 

 An Awe-inspiring Wasp A little Resin Moulder Robin's 

 Pincushion Currants and Spangles The Oak-apple A 

 Maleless Race Pine-apple Makers 



CHAPTER VI 

 LARWE AND THEIR WORK . . . . 79 



A Watchful Sentinel Insect Submarines How Ballast is 

 added An Ingenious Decoy A Water-baby Tapping the 

 Main Joseph's Coat A Clever Engineer Cuckoo Spit and 

 what it contains -Leaf- miners Safety in Numbers An 

 Insect Periscope 



CHAPTER VII 



COCOONS, NESTS AND EGGS . . \ . . 92 



A Living Shuttle A Long Pull and a Strong Pull A 

 Modern Ark The Cockroach's Purse The Praying Mantis 

 and its Egg Chamber -A Henpecked Water-bug Eggs in 

 Showers The Careful Mother A Butterfly befooled The 

 Troubles of a Horse The Mosquito Porter 



CHAPTER VIII 

 MIMICRY . . . . . , 100 



A Dead Leaf and its Story The History of a Green Leaf 

 Living Sticks A Spider's Strange Garb A Hornet Mimic 

 A Beetle and a Wasp An Exploded Myth The Mimic 

 and his False Burden The Wily Cuckoo 



CHAPTER IX 



GROUND AND UNDERGROUND NESTS . . .109 



How to use one's Feet as a Nest Bird Etiquette An Apology 

 for a Nest Eggs first, Nest afterwards A Soup-plate Nest 

 Mound Builders A Natural Incubator A Bird House- 

 boat Tending the Incubator A Deft Engineer Living 

 Rainbows Capture made easy A Living Pickaxe A 

 Dutiful Spouse 



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