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May beetles, or "June bugs" appear (Fig. ?3 ? A) ; they are the parents of the common white grubs (B) which every gardener will recognize. The common ladybird beetles (Fig. ?3 a A) are the adults of the ugly larvae (D) that feed so voraciously on aphids. In the comb of the beehive or

Fro. ?OE9- The Luna moth

of the wasps' nest, there are many cells that contain small, legless, wormlike creatures; these are the young bees or wasps, but you would never know it from their structure, for they have scarcely anything in common with their parents (Fig. ?33 A, B). The young mosquito (Fig. I74 I)) we all know, from seeing it often pictured and de- scribed and from observing that mosquitoes abound ??hercvev thcme wigglers are allowed to lire. The young

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