92 Insect Life : Its Why and Wherefore 
greedy little destroyers of the small forms 
of slugs and snails, especially the latter. 
As they reach the matured state of the 
perfected insect they change their diet 
and become vegetarians or entirely 
herbivorous, and feed upon the young 
shoots and leaves of various plants. While 
common enough during the summer 
months in the roadside, these insects are 
altogether too rare in our gardens, and 
possibly the plainness, we may almost 
say ugliness, of the female has caused the 
inexperienced gardener to classify her 
among “ them there insect vermin ” which 
must be put an end to. Could he but see 
the menu of the larval glow-worm he 
would change his old views very quickly. 
