The Great Bug Family

17 pages in this part of The Insect Folk.

Now, my children, do you know what a bug is? Most people do not.

Put it in this tumbler of water, and clap the cover over it - - now we have it. so! quick What is that, Mollie? I just said bugs do not…

bottom of the pond, right under the water, or along the edges of the banks.

So the long threads are antennæ after all.

We call it the lace bug.

back of young bugs, and from the under side of old ones.

It is a short way of saying grown-up; and after this, when we mean a grown-up insect, let us say an adult insect.

There is a contagious disease that kills them off in very great numbers.

No, indeed, these odors are not all alike.

The little white book lice that scurry away when we open an old book that has been standing on the back shelf, are not lice, either; they…

upper wings, half wing cover, and half wing, like those of so many of the bugs.

young bug sucks out the sap of the plant which finally appears as this white froth.

the grass in midsummer, you will be pretty sure to draw in a good collection of leaf hoppers.

They are tiny creatures, but what they lack in size they more than make up in numbers.

Yes, John, the tiny, dark-colored scales that look like little oyster shells on the skins of oranges are a form of scale bug, and a very…

Sometimes the weather is bad for them, the season is too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry, and then they do not appear in large numbers.

What is that, May? You belong to an Audubon Society for the protection of the birds?