A Grub is the larva of a beetle, having six feet and a smooth body.
A Maggot is the larva of a bee, wasp, or fly, and has no legs.
[D] One of these insects which fell under the writer's notice pierced and sucked dry aphides of several different species quite indifferently.
[ [E] This scene is represented in the [Frontispiece].
[F] To protect the wine from them it is customary to have little silver covers for the wine-glasses, which are put on immediately that the glass is taken from the lips.
[G] Vide "The Life of a Tree."
[H] The insect in the act of squirting is shown in the Frontispiece to this Part.
[I] Mr. Blackwall has discovered that by carefully examining the feet of spiders, this mistake may be avoided.
[J] M. Bonnet writes of the pupa of a moth, that it can climb up and down inside its cocoon like a chimney-sweep in a chimney! Some twirl about inside their cocoons; and it is said that a great entomologist was once so terrified by the curious noise thus made, that he nearly threw down the box in which it was, in his alarm.
[K] From a Latin word, signifying "covered," or "disguised."