eighty five million that have been caught in one trap in a single night a million plant life may live on a single tree and tire far as can be destroyed by millions of descendants of one pair of house flies during the six months one spring and summer number one hundred ninety one million many of  them lived and reproduce normal that's equivalent to a layer of fly for and and three hundred flies to the cubic covering the entire united states upset this natural balance however as we frequently and inevitably do with our civilized ways of life we bring tremendous troubles with insect pests upon ourselves manmade insect problems that demand manmade answers and while solving them we must also reckon with still another overwhelming advantage the insects possess their remarkable add up to about eight to changing conditions for exactly two hundred fifty million years before man appeared on this earth the road was already doing mighty well thank you our earth has seen many major changes since then insects today may not phase the same species each year but insects develop immunities to specific control measures almost as fast as man in bents new solution of our insect problems are the amazing varieties in the mighty cycles of insects for example the silverfish one of the most primitive insights to be seen in america today as a simple t finally there are the advanced modern insects the comparatively recent insects that have only been around for a mere one hundred and fifty million years they develop to complete metamorphosis in a complex for stage light  destructive in this larval sta in one or another of their almost infinite forms insects live everywhere a number more separate species through a greater range of shapes and sizes than all the rest of the animal kingdom again insects are far and away our greatest rival in the struggle for survival and mastery of the arts our insight enemies compete with us for everything the right whether it be food or fight not only do they eat our place but at the same time many of them also spread virus diseases from place to place they r and attack our tree feed on our livestock and our pets and ourselves and spread guilt and disease among us and our attack much of what we build and many of the things we manufacture the average but still paid by the united states each year is about four  we must recognize and understand them and encourage their activities within the limits of their usefulness probably the least known and most misunderstood of our insect friends  that does not interfere with the good work of our insect friends nor harm ourselves our methods must not create more problems than they s headquarters and information center for all phases of our insect worth there is the united states department of agriculture's bureau of entomology and plant parenti working in collaboration with private industry state and local governments and colleges the bureau it helps us wage the battle against the bugs with great care after thorough study and organization this includes the continual development and publication of information to help make us battle why such collaboration of effort on a national scale ensures that our methods and weapons are harmless to us our food and our saw using this proper caution and still guidance we must fight our insights enemies with every weapon our imagination and science can divide our weapons of mechanical war there against the insects in recent years chemical warfare against the insect has become widespread chemical warfare provides immediate relief from insect attack and infestation and the residual effects on insecticides are extremely valuable input there and sanitation chemical warfare is quick to our enemy whether used on a small scale or on a large scale of all our weapons insecticides are the most adept and effect or achieving quick results along the lines of the laboratories of industry government and colleges in which research scientists are constantly developing and testing new insecticides to further the fight tomorrow under carefully controlled conditions they take great pains to breed and raise healthy sturdy insect tough hard to kill little animals that might well be considered the blue ribbon livestock of the insect were must go on and on without lead time after time our insights enemies continue to demonstrate their abilities to develop resistance and immunity to specific insecticide perhaps the most long range and strategic old plays in our contest of the bugs are quarantine measures which have become increasingly prevalent in recent years one tensional insect migrations and infestations are stopped the national border line state line even right at the county line and some unusual case quarantine measures include the thorough inspection and fumigation of incoming ships trains trucks and planes and their cargoes in order to destroy incite it if these practices had been in use a century or two ago numerous foreign insect invaders would be considerably less prevalent in the united states today florentine measures are continually retarding and reducing stole another long range but places of modern insect control is biological warfare fighting and insect pests or infestation with it's all natural enemy and historical example destroy the inside enemies we want to be read several species of small minnows and other top feeding face thrive on the larvae of mosquitoes and these minerals are being bred them grazed in great