' Where the bee sucks there suck I." 



TBMPBST, ACT V, 3C. I. 



Having now, my dear friend, glanced at the 

 destructive powers exercised by the caterpillars of 

 insects, we are prepared for entering on some con- 

 siderations relative to their economy and habits. 

 But I must trespass a little longer on your patience, 

 to bring before you in one connected view an im- 

 portant point in their physical organization. Some 

 tribes of insects, as you well know, are rapacious, 

 and live by the destruction of those which are less 

 powerful than themselves. Some, like " the worm 



