Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions. / A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances.

by Frank Cowan

And for winter they lay up their stores:

They manage their work in such regular forms,

One would think they foresaw all the frosts and the storms,

And so brought their food within doors.[504]

And Smart:

The sage, industrious Ant, the wisest insect,

And best economist of all the field:

For when as yet the favorable sun

Gives to the genial earth th’ enlivening ray,

——All her subterranean avenues,