How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and other wood-cuts/The Bee; The Beet; The Beetle

by Robert Williams Wood

Good Mr. Darwin once contended
That Beetles were from Bees descended,
And as my pictures show I think
The Beet must be the missing link.
The sugar-beet and honey-bee
Supply the Beetle's pedigree:
The family is now complete,—
The Bee, the Beetle and the Beet.