IMPORTANCE OF THE INSECT. 
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Way, and no less so that of the bee-hive. Who knows but that the 
life of the stars may be of minor importance ? I see that some of them 
vanish, and God dispenses with them. But no genus of the Insect 
World ever fails to answer to the summons. If a single species of 
ants should disappear, their loss would be serious, and cause a dangerous 
gap in the universal economy. 
