100 Insect Life : Its Why and Wherefore 
itself to bushes and shrubs in the hedgerow. 
She helps to clear away the numberless old 
birds’ nests which, when finished with, 
make the hedges unsightly, and perhaps, 
when you come to think the matter out, 
her mission to us in our homes is to 
make us less vain by destroying superfluous 
wardrobes, and less selfish and miserly 
by rendering useless things which we are 
only hoarding, things which might have 
been of priceless value to someone else. 
