Indeed, after all that we have already seen upon a single bramble-bush, would it be taking too much license with fact to add one more pictorial chronicle-an exhilarated and promiscuous group of butterflies, ants, hornets, wasps, and flies uniting in "a health to the jolly aphis"?
"My Studio Neighbors"
William Hamilton Gibson
1, Cricket; 2, Earwig; 3, aphis; 4, Scolytus; 5, Anthrax; 6, Balaninus; 7, Cynips; 8, Ant; 9, Wasp.
"On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects"
Sir John Lubbock
There is a species of aphis which lives on the roots of grass, and some ants collect these into their nests, keeping them, in fact, just as we do cows.
"On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects"
Sir John Lubbock