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May beetles, or "June bugs" appear (Fig. 3  A) ; they are the parents of the common white grubs (B) which every gardener will recognize. The common ladybird beetles (Fig. 3 a A) are the adults of the ugly larvae (D) that feed so voraciously on aphids. In the comb of the beehive or

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of the wasps' nest, there are many cells that contain small, legless, wormlike creatures; these are the young bees or wasps, but you would never know it from their structure, for they have scarcely anything in common with their parents (Fig. 33 A, B). The young mosquito (Fig. I74 I)) we all know, from seeing it often pictured and de- scribed and from observing that mosquitoes abound hercvev thcme wigglers are allowed to lire. The young

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