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INSECTS. 
and deserve to be cherished and protected for their services. "Rose 
hugs are also eaten greedily by domesticated fowls; and when they 
become exhausted and fall to the ground, or when they are about to 
lay their eggs, they are destroyed by moles, insects, and other ani¬ 
mals, which lie in wait to seize them. Dr. Green informs us that a 
species of dragon fly, or devil’s needle, devours them. He also says 
that an insect which he calls the enemy of the cut worm, probably 
the larva of a Carabus, or predaceous ground beetle, preys on the 
grubs of the common dor bug. In France, the golden ground beetle, 
(Carabus auratus ,) devours the female dor or chafer at the moment 
when she is about to deposit her eggs. I have taken one specimen 
of this fine ground beetle in Massachusetts, and we have several other 
Kinds, equally predaceous, which probably contribute to check the 
increase of our native Melolonthians. 
