Glow-worms.
Butterflies.
Lice.
Bees and wasps.
About bees alone whole books have been written—for they have wonderful powers in making their honeycomb, in finding their way for miles—sometimes as far as six miles—to find the right kind of flowers for giving them the sugary juice for making honey, and getting back with it to the hive.
They are quite a model community, for they respect their Queen and kill their unemployed.
Then some insects are useful as food. Ants make a substitute for salt. Locusts—a big kind of grasshopper—are eaten in India and South Africa. We were very glad to get a flight or two of them over Mafeking. When they settled on the ground we went, and with empty sacks, beat them down as they tried to rise. They were then dried in the sun and pounded up and eaten.
HINTS FOR INSTRUCTOR.
PRACTICES.
Set your scouts to find out by observation, and to report on such points as these: