MARGARET WARNER MORLEY
A WORD TO THE CHILDREN
CONTENTS
Odonata Ephemerida Plecoptera Thysanura
Our Pretty Dragon Flies
The Fairy May Flies
The Stone Fly Folk
The Silver Fish
Orthoptera
The Old Cockroaches
Neighbor Walking Stick
The Grasshopper Tribes
The Shorthorned Grasshoppers
The Longhorned Grasshoppers
Pretty Katydids
The Cricket-like Grasshoppers
The Cheery Cricket People
A Large Family
Hemiptera
The Great Bug Family
The Water Boatman
The Funny Back-swimmers
The Giant Water Bug
Little Mrs. Shore Bug
The Airy Water Striders
A Queer Fellow
The Well Dressed Lace Bug
A Bad Bug
The Troublesome Red Bug
The Ravenous Chinch Bugs
The Well Protected Stink Bug
The Louse
Bird Lice and Book Lice
Friend Cicada
The Odd Spittle Insect
Pretty Leaf Hoppers
The Comical Tree Hoppers
The Jumping Plant Lice
The Aphids
Scale Bugs
Neuroptera Trichoptera
The Horned Corydalus
Fairy Lacewing
The Ant Lion
The Little Caddice Flies
GLOSSARY