If you need to catch them, put them under a tumbler, and feed them and give them a drop of water every day to drink. Slip a card under the rim of the tumbler on one side so as to let in the air. If you do not know what to feed them, or if they will not eat, let them go after a day or two.

If you wish to kill an injurious insect, do it quickly and completely. Remember the insects are alive, and we should not make them suffer unnecessarily.

Of course you must try to make your captives feel at home. If they live in the sand, put sand in the tumbler and tie a piece of netting over the top so they cannot escape.

If they live in the water, put them in a tumbler of water. And when you have secured your captives, watch them as much as you can.

If you do not know how to pronounce the words in this book, study the glossary at the back and it will help you.

I hope you will have a very happy time getting acquainted with your little insect neighbors.

MARGARET WARNER MORLEY.
Boston,
April 18, 1903.

CONTENTS

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Our Pretty Dragon Flies[3]
The Fairy May Flies[25]
The Stone Fly Folk[33]
The Silver Fish[36]
The Old Cockroaches[41]
Neighbor Walking Stick[52]
The Grasshopper Tribes[59]
The Shorthorned Grasshoppers[61]
The Longhorned Grasshoppers[81]
Pretty Katydids[94]
The Cricket-like Grasshoppers[99]
The Cheery Cricket People[101]
A Large Family[107]
The Great Bug Family[115]
The Water Boatman[116]
The Funny Back-swimmers[124]
The Giant Water Bug[125]
Little Mrs. Shore Bug[127]
The Airy Water Striders[127]
A Queer Fellow[129]
The Well Dressed Lace Bug[132]
A Bad Bug[133]
The Troublesome Red Bug[135]
The Ravenous Chinch Bugs[138]
The Well Protected Stink Bug[139]
The Louse[142]
Bird Lice and Book Lice[142]
Friend Cicada[143]
The Odd Spittle Insect[152]
Pretty Leaf Hoppers[154]
The Comical Tree Hoppers[157]
The Jumping Plant Lice[157]
The Aphids[158]
Scale Bugs[165]
The Horned Corydalus[175]
Fairy Lacewing[183]
The Ant Lion[187]
The Little Caddice Flies[190]
Glossary[197]