Poor fool! Your victim went out under your nose and you never saw it.

The Cat is supposed to have the same power as the Bee to find its way home.

Each Bee has her home, a house which no one but the owner has the right to enter.

The Leaf-cutter therefore is able to use her scissors according to the task before her; she makes large or small pieces as they are needed.

It is hard to tell the Resin-bees’ nests, because the insect often makes its home at the very inside of the spiral, a long way from the mouth.

A Fly-hunting Wasp arrives suddenly and alights, without any hesitation, at a spot which to my eyes looks exactly like the rest of the sandy surface.

The abominable deed is done: the Mutilla’s egg has been laid in another’s cocoon, beside the slumbering grub or larva on which it will feed.

If the corpse were left undisturbed, it would dry up and take a long while to disappear.

“When winter is near they will build a stronger tent.”

The Caterpillars come out of their eggs in about a week, and the first thing they do is to eat the egg-shells, or egg-wrappers, before tackling the green leaves