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Insect Folk

Name: Insect Folk
Author: Margaret Warner Morley

Margaret Warner Morley

Read by Laura Caldwell · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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A Word to the Children (1:54)
Our Pretty Dragonflies (23:00)
The Fairy May Flies (9:13)
The Stone Fly Folk (2:51)
The Silver Fish (2:27)
The Old Cockroaches (12:22)
Neighbor Walking Stick (8:15)
The Grasshopper Tribes (1:21)
The Shorthorned Grasshoppers (21:27)
The Longhorned Grasshoppers (14:16)
Pretty Katydids (5:05)
The Cricket-Like Grasshoppers (1:50)
The Cheery Cricket People (5:47)
A Large Family (6:48)
The Great Bug Family (1:27)
The Water Boatman (9:20)
The Funny Back-Swimmers (1:23)
The Giant Water Bug (2:23)
Little Mrs. Shore Bug (1:03)
The Airy Water Striders (2:06)
A Queer Fellow (3:33)
The Well Dressed Lace Bug (1:15)
A Bad Bug (2:59)
The Troublesome Red Bug (2:56)
The Ravenous Chinch Bugs (2:09)
The Well Protected Stink Bug (4:06)
The Louse (1:06)
Bird Lice and Book Lice (0:51)
Friend Cicada (10:39)
The Odd Spittle Insect (2:33)
Pretty Leaf Hoppers (3:45)
The Comical Tree Hoppers (1:10)
The Jumping Plant Lice (1:10)
The Aphids (8:25)
Scale Bugs (8:58)
The Horned Corydalus (9:01)
Fairy Lacewing (5:06)
The Ant Lion (3:57)
The Little Caddice Flies (8:32)