Its six legs are fastened to its thorax. I am glad you remembered
thorax.

Has it a jointed abdomen? and has it wings?

Look! did you see that?

It opened its innocent-looking face all of a sudden, just darted it out
into a long-handled spoon, with hooks at the end, and hooked up that
little grub.

Now it is holding the grub on the hooks in front of its mouth and eating
it as greedily as if it were half starved.

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So that is why its face looks so queer.

It is its long under lip all folded up in front like a mask that makes
it look like a pug dog.

When it pleases it darts out that lip, and any unlucky insect or snail
may fall a prey to its greedy appetite.

It is said that the larvæ of some dragon flies even eat pollywogs and
small fishes.

Ned wants to know if "larvæ" means the same as "larva."

Yes, it is the plural form of the word. When we speak of only one we say