Within southwestern Chicago the food relations of a five-linked food chain of insects (a case of hyperparasitism) was studied. The larvae of the large Saturniid moth Hyalophora (formerly Samia) cecropia (Linnaeus), while feeding upon black willow, box elder, and wild black cherry, served as the key industry for four successive links of hymenopterous parasites (more accurately named parasitoids). The primary parasite was the ichneumonid Spilocryptus extrematis (Cresson); the secondary parasite was Aenoplex smithii (Packard); and the tertiary and quaternary parasitic positions were held, respectively, by the chalcids Dibrachys boucheanus (Ratzeburg) and Pleurotropis tarsalis (Ashmead). Contributing to the delicate dynamic balance of this food chain were the tachinid fly Winthemia cecropia (Riley) (formerly W. datanae Tns.), two additional ichneumonids Ephialtes aequalus (Provancher), and Hemiteles tenellus (Say) and the chalcids Dimmockia incongruus (Ashmead) and Cirrospilus inimicus (Gahan). Reference is made to an assumed controversy throughout all the natural world between the Creator and Satan. A brief discussion is also included suggesting how, from a creationist viewpoint, a change in food in some animals from plant sources to animal sources, may have occurred.