Excerpt from Eye Spy: Afield With Nature Among Flowers and Animate ThingsBut of what use can such a queer beetle be to himself or any one else - a beetle that is not only without wings, but is so fat and oundering that he can hardly lift his unwieldy body from the ground, and which, upon being surprised, can only play possum, and exude great drops of oil upon our palm as we examine him?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.