BOOK I. 

 HISTORY OF INSECTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



HISTORY OF INSECTS IN GENERAL. 



1. The history of an insect, like the history of 

 a man, is an account of life from first to last, 

 from birth to death. Insects are so constituted, 

 that the history of an individual is the history of 

 its race : climate, season, or circumstance, exercises 

 little power of creating difTerences among them ; 

 a bee is as essentially a bee, and a butterfly a but- 

 terfly, at the equator as at the poles ; and in either 

 situations performs the same acts. 



2. Insects of all kinds and in all situations re- 

 semble each other in these points :— they proceed 

 from the parent as eggs, the eggs are hatched and 

 become grubs, in which state they eat, increase 

 rapidly in size, and are invariably without wings ; 



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