Its eggs are very curious. It lays them on leaves and glues them fast. They look like little out-growths of the leaf.
The young lace bugs are like their parents in form, only, of course, they have no wings and so they are not pretty.
Fairy lace bug, we are glad to make your acquaintance.
A Bad Bug
Now, here is a bug we all loathe. It is round and flat, and reddish brown in color, and it has a disgusting odor.
But though we hate this bug, it is very fond of us. It has a short, sharp tube folded down under its head, and this tube it likes to raise up and stick into the skin of people, and suck out their blood.
It has no wings, only a pair of little scales where its wings should be. Yes, May, these scales are rudimentary wings, and they are good for nothing. It once had wings, but it preferred to go slipping about in cracks and hiding in beds, until in course of time no wings grew, which served it right.
It has antennæ and eyes and spiracles; indeed, it has everything a bug should have but wings and good manners.