The Insect Folk

By Margaret Warner Morley
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Length3h 56m

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Margaret Warner Morley (February 17, 1858 in Montrose, Iowa - December 12, 1923 in Washington, D.C.) was an American educator, biologist and writer, author of many books on nature and biology for children and novel writer. Excerpt: "When the dragon fly larva first hatches it is very small and its legs are rather long and spidery, but it eats and eats and eats,--my, how it eats! And it grows and grows, and one day it finds its skin too tight. A tight skin must be rather uncomfortable. But the larva does not care much for its skin. It merely splits it open down the back and pulls itself out. Perhaps you think it must be yet more uncomfortable to be without a skin. But it is not without a skin. It is covered by a new and soft one that soon hardens, and that is larger than the old one. It wriggles out of its old skin as though it were an old coat, and leaves it clinging to the weeds in the pond. Sometime you may find these cast-off dragon fly overcoats. After it has shed its skin the dragon fly continues to grow." (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

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Rating★★★★ 4.1 (33)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length3 hrs 56 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1A WORD TO THE CHILDREN
23A Queer Fellow
2Our Pretty Dragon Flies
24The Well Dressed Lace Bug
3The Fairy May Flies
25A Bad Bug
4The Stone Fly Folk
26The Troublesome Red Bug
5The Silver Fish
27The Ravenous Chinch Bugs
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6Orthoptera
28The Well Protected Stink Bug
7The Old Cockroaches
29The Louse
8Neighbor Walking Stick
30Bird Lice and Book Lice
9The Grasshopper Tribes
31Friend Cicada
10The Shorthorned Grasshoppers
32The Odd Spittle Insect
11The Longhorned Grasshoppers
33Pretty Leaf Hoppers
12Pretty Katydids
34The Comical Tree Hoppers
13The Cricket-like Grasshoppers
35The Jumping Plant Lice
14The Cheery Cricket People
36The Aphids
15A Large Family
37Scale Bugs
16Hemiptera
38Neuroptera
17The Great Bug Family
39Trichoptera
18The Water Boatman
40The Horned Corydalus
19The Funny Back-swimmers
41Fairy Lacewing
20The Giant Water Bug
42The Ant Lion
21Little Mrs. Shore Bug
43The Little Caddice Flies
22The Airy Water Striders

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