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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. 



^^^. At certain seasons of the 

 -=>^^fe. year the aphides are very abun- 

 dant. We sometimes call them 

 plant-lice, and I am sure you 

 have all seen them on rose 

 bushes, ?nd lilies, and 

 I, other garden plants. 

 'Sometimes they are green^ 

 sometimes brown, sometimes 

 Aphides enlarged, ^^gy havc wiugs, somctimes 

 not. They are very curious little creatures, 

 and sometime you must learn more about 

 thet.i. 



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 



