text: The whirligig beetles are wary and fast
  With an organ to detect the ripples
  The arachnid moths lay their eggs inside
  Other insects along the borders of fields or roads
  In clusters of white cocoons
  The ribbed pine borer is a longhorn beetle
  Their antennas are half the length of their body
  And they feed on dead red pine
  Robber flies with their immobile heads
  Inject a paralyzing fluid into their prey
  That they snatch from life in mid-air
  The snow fleas mode of locomotion
  Strange and odd
  With a spiny tail mechanism with hooks
  And a protracted tube from the abdomen
  To enable moisture absorption
  The female praying mantis devours the male
  While they are mating
  The male sometimes continues copulating
  Even after the female has bitten off his head
  And part of his upper torso
  Every night wasps bite into the stem of a plant
  Lock their mandibles into position
  Stretch out at right angles to the stem and
  With legs dangling they fall asleep
  If one places a minute amount of liquor
  On a scorpion
  It will instantly go mad and
  Sting itself to death
  The bombardier beetle
  When disturbed
  Defends itself by emitting a series of explosions
  Sometimes setting off four or five reports in succession
  The noises sound like miniature popgun blasts
  And are accompanied by a cloud of
  Reddish coloured vile smelling fluid
  It is commonly known that ants keep slaves
  Certain species
  The so-called sanguinary ants
  In particular
  Will raid the nests of other ant tribes
  And kill the queen and then kidnap many of the workers
  The workers are brought back to the captors hive
  Where they are coerced into performing menial tasks
  And as we discussed last semester
  The army ants will leave nothing but your bones
  Perhaps youve encountered some of these insects
  In your communities
  Displaying both their predatory and defense characteristics
  While embedded within the walls of flesh
  And passing for what is most commonly recognized
  As human