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.
The Lepidopterist / First Snail
The Tranp
The Chrysalis
Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
Robber Beetle/Journalist
The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
The Larva
Mr. Cricket / Second Snail
Mrs. Cricket
The Blind Ant Timekeeper
The Parasite
