XIV Handbook of Nature-Skidy 



Page 



The Ladybird 413 



The Firefly 416 



The Ways of the Ant 419 



How to Make a Lubbock Ant-Nest 423 



The Ant-Nest and What May be Seen Within it 4^5 



The Mud-dauber 429 



The Yellow-jacket 432 



The Leaf -cutter Bee 436 



The Little Carpenter Bee 439 



The Bumblebee 442 



The Honey-bee 445 



The Honey-comb 451 



Industries of the Hive and the Observation Hive 453 



VII Other Invertebrate-Animal Study 



The Garden Snail 458 



The Earthworm 462 



The Crayfish ' 466 



Daddy Longlegs, or Grandfather Greybeard 472 



Spiders 475 



The Funnel- web 477 



The Orb-web 478 



The Filmy Dome 483 



Ballooning Spiders 484 



The White Crab-Spider 485 



How the Spider Mothers Take Care of their Young 487 



PART in 



Plant Life 



How to Begin the Study of Plants and Flowers 489 



How to Make Plants Comfortable 490 



How to Teach the Names of the Parts of a Flower 492 



Teach the Use of a Flower 493 



Flowers and Insect Partners 494 



The Relation of Plants to Geography 495 



Seed Germination 495 



/ Wild-flower Study 



The Hepatica 496 



The Yellow Adder's Tongue 499 



Bloodroot 503 



The Trillium :. . 506 



Dutchman's Breeches and Squirrel Corn 509 



Jack-in-the-Pulpit 512 



The Violet 515 



The May Apple or Mandrake 519 



The Bluets 523 



The Yellow Lady's Slipper, or Moccasin Flower 525 



The Common Buttercup 528 



The Evening Primrose 530 



