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– Well, what did you find out? – the mantis and the firefly asked all together, – let’s hurry up to the spider and save the buzzing fly.

– Alas, my friends. It’s not that simple. My mother doesn’t know the answer.

– It turns out that this hateful Glotton is going to eat up the poor insect, – Floky wiped her eyes wet with tears with her paw.

– I was eager to start doing good deeds, so I’ll go and start fighting the fly tormentor! – Zlik raised his huge front paws menacingly. He was about to shout the battle cry of all the mantises, but Gingy interrupted him:

– There is no need to fight anyone. Let’s go to the clearing to the people’s house, the ant pointed out the direction to his friends.

– Where to? To the people? What for? Do you know that some of them pierce our chitinous backs with pins, and then make this, I keep forgetting the word… Oh, now I remembered – a collection. Nope! I won’t go to them not for the world! – the mantis defiantly folded his paws and turned away in protest.

– Firstly, you are a coward, and secondly, we are not going to them, but to the hive that they built near their home, and thirdly, their Mother bee Fran is sure to know the answer to the spider’s riddle.

– Where to? Zlik and Floky asked the ant all together again.

– Oh, you don’t know simple things. Gingy took a twig and, drawing a square with legs on the ground, continued, – I was taught at the ant school that people divide all insects into two groups: useful and harmful. They consider bees to be useful and even make houses for them, which they call hives…

– Do you think I’m useful to people? Floky interrupted the ant unceremoniously.