John says he feels better acquainted with the catbird than he would have
been if he had read fifty books about it.
And I am sure he is right. The only way to enjoy a bird and to know it,
is to watch it alive.
A camera is the very best gun in the world for catching birds. And it is
really much better fun to take their pictures than to shoot and kill
them.
It seems to me we have strayed a long way from bugs.
May says she thinks birds are much more interesting than bugs.
That may be, but still we want to know about bugs, too.
Do you think you will know a bug when you see it now?
No, I do not believe you can be sure of that. But at least you know
something about a few bugs.
Some day you will study more carefully how insects are formed, and then
you will understand better how we decide what order they belong to.
We group together the insects that are most like each other.
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~NEUROPTERA~
~TRICHOPTERA~