
A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.

as The Lepidopterist / First Snail

as The Tranp

as The Chrysalis

as Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows

as Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

as Robber Beetle/Journalist

as The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor

as The Larva

as Mr. Cricket / Second Snail

as Mrs. Cricket

as The Blind Ant Timekeeper

as The Parasite