Dragon-flies, katydids, the funny back-swimmers and little Mrs. Shore Bug — Morley walks children through the insect world by asking them to go and LOOK: “books will help you, but you must watch, too.”

A Large Family

2 pages in this part of The Insect Folk.

A Large Family (Crickets grasshoppers walking)

THE crickets, grasshoppers, walking sticks, praying mantes, and cockroaches, strange as it may seem, are all near relatives to each other.

A Large Family (There are a great many species)

There are a great many species of Orthoptera in the world, and we have seen but a very few of them.

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