CHAPTER XXXVI 

 WORK FOR THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS 



LIFE HISTORIES OF INSECTS NATURE-STUDY PHOTOGRAPHS 



RELICS OF EARLY MAN 



LIFE HISTORIES OF INSECTS 



THE long summer holidays will give an opportunity for the con- 

 tinuance of almost all the lines of work which have been suggested 

 in the Second Part of the book. Many life histories of insects may 

 be watched to their completion and others be begun. We will not 

 do more than suggest a beetle, in the shape of the lady-bird, which 

 can be watched even in a town. This, like the hover-fly, feeds on 

 aphides, and so also does the larva of the lovely lace-wing fly. 



In the summer the orange-coloured eggs of the lady-bird (see 



figure 244) may be found, 

 for instance, on the under- 

 sides of leaves in the gar- 

 den. They are not raised 

 on long stalks as are those 

 of the lace- wing fly, nor do 

 they lie on their sides like 

 those of the hover-fly. 



From the lady-bird's egg 

 there hatches out a lively 

 little creature which, in 



FIGURE 244. The eggs of a twin-spot Lady-bird on . . . 



the under-side of a hollyhock leaf. Spite OI its SIX legs, has 



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