Excerpt from Insect Artizans and Their Work Here is a marvel which should make us keen to follow with interest the industries of these little creatures. It is only one example of the thousands of marvels that reward the inquirer into Insect Economics. With a view to awakening an interest in these matters, the following pages have been written; and the better to attract the attention of those to Whom a more systematic treatment would be considered dry and uninteresting, the examples Chosen have been grouped under headings borrowed from the human industries that most nearly correspond to the activities of these Insect Artizans. 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.