INSECTS 



May beetles, or "June bugs" appear (Fig. 131 A); they are 

 the parents of the common white grubs (B) which every 

 gardener will recognize. The common ladybird beetles 

 (Fig. 132 A) are the adults of the ugly larvae (D) that feed 

 so voraciously on aphids. In the comb of the beehive or 



Fig. 129. The Luna moth 



of the wasps' nest, there are many cells that contain small, 

 legless, wormlike creatures; these are the young bees or 

 wasps, but you would never know it from their structure, 

 for they have scarcely anything in common with their 

 parents (Fig. 133 A, B). The young mosquito (Fig. 174 

 D) we all know, from seeing it often pictured and de- 

 scribed and from observing that mosquitoes abound 

 wherever these wigglers are allowed to live. The young 



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