124 The Bee People. 
very fond. We are told that some ants 
take care of the aphides, protect them and 
treat them as if they were indeed little 
insect cows. 
Cate. At certain seasons of the 
RR. =o mes year the aphides are very abun- 
= é dant. We sometimes call them 
plant-lice, and I am sure you 
have all seen them on rose 
= bushes, and_ lilies, and 
wil; other garden plants. 
a Sometimes they are green, 
f= sometimes brown, sometimes 
Aphides enlarged. they have wings, sometimes 
not. They are very curious little creatures, 
and sometime you must learn more about 
theta. 
An aphis puts her bill into the skin of a 
leaf, and there she stays and sucks out its 
juice, which you can imagine is not very 
good for the leaf. 
Some of the juice which the aphides eat 
is changed into the sweet liquid the ants 
