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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
A few animals that may be found at the seashore 
Rocky Shores — Hydroids on the rock-weed, rock-bar- 
nacles, snails, amphipods, lobsters, and oysters. 
Sandy Shores — Worms in tube houses, mole-crab, 
sand-hopper, egg-cases, whelks, shrimps. 
Muddy Shores — Snails, clams, worms of many vari- 
eties, mud-crabs, hermit-crabs, blue crabs, scallops. 
Wharves and Bridges (on the piling) — Sponges, hy- 
droids, sea-anemones, ascidians, starfishes, sea-urchins, 
worms. 
On the shores of lakes, ponds, and streams will also 
be found many invertebrates. 
Insects and Spiders 
HUMMINGBIRD MOTH 
Range: Eastern North America. The larvae or caterpillars of 
this moth feed upon virburnum, snowberry and hawthorn. 
Insects play an important part in Nature’s activities. 
From the point of view of man some are beneficial and 
some are destructive. In the former group may be 
mentioned the Dragonflies which feed upon mosquitoes, 
the Cochineal insects of Mexico, which furnish a dye- 
