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every one seeks Ms destruction. In color it is dull 

 brown. There is sometimes another associated with 

 it, with small red spots upon the wing covers. Beetles 

 undergo changes during their lives, the same as butter- 

 flies. Their change is sometimes called the resurrec- 

 tion from the dead, which seems very appropriate to 

 this wonderful freak in nature. The larvae of the 

 apple-tree borer is very destructive to fruit trees, boring 

 galleries or tunnels through and through the tree, so 

 as to render it feeble and worthless, and in process of 

 time the tree decays and falls, and is fit for nothing 

 but to burn. 



The little lady bird is another one of the beetle fam- 

 ily. It is a beautiful little creature, the w^ng covers 

 being bright red marked with a few black spots. This 

 is the bug that the nursery rhyme was based upon, and 

 which some of us are so familiar with. The habit that 

 beetles and other insects have of flocking to our lamps 

 is well known, and many of them lose their lives in 

 this foolish practice. There are thousands of others 

 both small and great, which are too numerous to men- 

 tion separately. 



BEES AND WASPS. 



Bees are of great use to man, both the tame and the 

 wild ones, supplying them with honey, which is highly 

 esteemed for food. Our bees live in hives or boxes 

 which are prepared for them. They make a large 

 structure of wax called a comb, in which the honey is 

 deposited, it being gathered from the summer flowers 

 in the shape of pollen or dust, which they carry away 



