Cradle-Cells. 135 



When Baby Apis becomes a pupa, she 

 does nothing more wonderful than butter- 

 flies and many other insects do, — for they 

 too become pupas on the way to being 

 grown up, just as we become boys or 

 girls on the way to being men or women. 



You may like to know that larva is a 

 Latin word, and means ghost, or mask, for 

 the larva is, in one sense, the ghost or 

 mask of the perfect insect. 



But what do you think pupa means? 



It, too, is a Latin word, and means doll. 



The pupa of-insects is generally inactive, 

 and does not seem to be alive, though, 

 of course, it is alive, and so it is called 

 a doll, or image of the insect. 



Baby Apis remains a pupa for several 

 days, then she makes up her mind that 

 if they want to keep other babies in bottles, 

 they may, but as for her, she has had enough 

 of it, so she puts up her mouth and gnaws 

 a hole the shape of a crescent in the cap 

 they put over her, and probably peeps out 



