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you are out of their way. It takes patience; but it pays. 

 To discover God's sure and marvelous ways of working, 

 in these tiny creatures, cannot fail 

 to make the discoverer desire to live 

 more fully and faithfully in doing his 

 own tasks from day to day. 



For flower beetles, one should go 

 to the woodland, the pasture, or the 

 hillside, where elder bushes, golden-rod, 

 yarrow, or wild asters grow. Beat a 

 flower cluster over your handkerchief, 

 and you may beat out several kinds of 

 beetles which have been eating pollen 

 — and this is Delmonico fare for these 

 beetles — and incidentally pollenating 

 the various flower clusters, therein lies 

 the value of the beetles, of course. 



The next family of toad stools you 

 find, pick the ripest of the big ones, 

 and there may be found among the gills of the old top, 

 flatfish, rather small, slim-bodied beetles, with short 

 wing-covers. These are the rove beetles, 

 and the service rendered is that of 

 scavengers. In all this you do not have 

 in mind the pursuing and killing of in- 

 sects, but the knowledge which can come 

 only through finding the beetle in its 

 haunts and following it around to see how 

 it lives and moves and has its being. There fig. 27.— a flower 

 will always be room for another Agassiz, heet\e, Euphoria 

 and who knows where he will be found ? * "• ^ ' °^^' 



The one who best studies aquatic insects of all kinds 

 does so fiat on his face, watching the water depths for 



Fig. 26. — Larva of 

 great water scavenger 

 beetle. (Kellogg, after 

 Schiodte.) 



