Excerpt from Our Insect Friends and Foes Insect Life which have come Within my own sphere of observation, I have not hesitated to avail myself of the confirmatory and wider in vestigations of leading authorities on this fas cinating subject, so that my readers might have the facts placed before them as broadly and clearly as possible. I believe that in every case where I have so utilized the opinions and obser vations of other investigators, I have given the name of the author and placed his observations between quotation marks, that I might so far as lay in my power acknowledge my admiration and appreciation of their valuable work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.