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LITTLE FOLKS 

picture — is blind and without legs, and she passes her life nearly 
buried in the soft parts of the bee. 
The young, like the one on the right of the picture, cling, as I 
said, to the hairs of the bee, and when she goes to her nest it gets 
on to the bee baby. It does not kill that unfortunate creature, 
because it is so small, but it feeds on it, and sticks to it, through 
all its changes till it becomes a full grown bee. It goes through 
the regular insect changes on the back of the bee, and at last, if it 
is a male Stylops, it grows a pair of wings and flies off, and if it is 
a female it only buries its body in the body of the bee, and settles 
itself for life. When the young are born, they seek other bee 
babies to grow upon, and the mother Stylops soon dies. 
