INSECT FACT AND FOLKLORE

by Lucy Clausen ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 25, 1954

A compendium of information about the insect world divides its subjects into parallel groupings and within those groups covers proven and fanciful beliefs about the individuals, the world around. Velvet wings (butterflies and moths), the armored ones (beetles), cockroaches and their allied families, flies, the workers (bees), the socializers (ants), the anesthetizers (hornets and wasps), hypodermics (cicada, aphids), aerialists (dragonflies), undercover (termites), pests (fleas), and intruders (lice) -- these are the divisions and the real knowledge is amplified by the superstitions, legends, proverbs and symbols based on them. Their use in primitive practices, in actual and wishful remedies, their potentials for good and evil, their abundance and perpetuation, those that have been -- and are being -- used as food, their place in the economy of nature -- this too is part of the overall picture.

Pub Date: May 25, 1954

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Macmillan

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1954

Categories: NONFICTION