Chapter IV The Insect as Man’s Auxiliary
The want of insect-labour induced the potato disease, 165
Such is the dictum of an author, who thinks that the multiplication of small birds has been destructive to insect-life; but no such multiplication of birds has taken place, nor any such destruction of insects, 165, 166
The Bird and the Insect are the joint purifiers of creation, 167
Some species of insects should be carefully preserved, 167
A sketch is given of their multifarious labours, 168
Of the services rendered by the scavenger-insects, 169
Of the value of certain insects as food, 170
As, for instance, in the case of the locust, 171
The law of retaliation illustrated, 172