Worcester daily spy., 1854-06-12

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| Or fthe North must yet descend
| ii From depth to lower deeps p
| l Remember this, nor be you dumb a5f
| . When the great time to act has come, rs.f III
| WITH Us THE South NO PROMISE KEEPS. 80
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HURTPuI INSECTS. IF you would preserve
! your fruits protect the birds. If you would
save your crops, you must study the insects
that damage the farmer. Read in the Work.
| ing Farmer for January the report Of Dir. Har-
| ris upon the Rose Bug, with its slender body.
| tapering before and behind, covered with ash
en- yellow down, equipped with pale red long
legs-one Of the greatest scourges of the ntlr-
sery and garden It does not confine les raw
ages to the rose, whence it derives its name,
but attacks the grape vine in 1nyriads; aud
apple, plum and cherry trees have not been
spared. Other trees and even the grass, have
been devoured sometimes by this indiscriInin-
ate feeder, that has its preference, but yet viii
not allow fastidious squeamishness to de-
prive him Of a dinner.
Birds eat them in great numbers, and barn
door fowls are fond Of making repast upon
| them, as also Inoles, insects and other ani-
mails If insects did not destroy each other,
| allother living things might fail before them,
aud finally not animalo or plant be left upon
the face of the EARTH. m ,as4oa ts
| Plant Lice love company, and so cluster
/ gether in great numbers on the limbs OF stablish-
and shrubs. They exude sweets.h or Ready
sap extracted from vegetation, of ftunity Of seeing
are very fond, aud the latter arenovleged by thou
| to be exceedingly active in asC of found at
seending plants, which after az TX t for the
unhealthy. The disease from N sk z S,eats
suffer ID attributed by many to these az g 81
they are perfectly Innocent, aud never i.
trees at all. The Industrious creatures H.
only visiting their friends, these plant-lice,
sometimes called aphides, in order to milk
u ham, i,I,c, :
the ants, who treat them with the utmost
tenderness, which seems to be reeiprocated by
the lice; for they viii dispense their favors
with apparent pleasure by squeezing out drop
| after drop of the precious liquor GA purpose to
! crafty the sensual drinkers, standing round
| in a circle to imbibe it.
In the autumn the ants even remove the
plant lice from their summer dwellings upon
the branches of shrubbery, flowers and trees
to their own more comfortable and less ex-
posed domieils ia the ground, whereethey
take care of them as kindly as they do of their
own offspring, III return for which, they draw
from them much of their own nourishment.
Thus afeetionate is the relation between the
ant and plant louise. On the other hand, the
latter do much damage to plants, upon which
they feedin vast numbers, causing them to
pine and decay If no friendly ants relieve
them Of the superabundance of their Juices,
4 they will overflow upon the limbs aud foliage,
or be elected and fall in showers. around them.
This substance is sometimes called 6osey-desC;
but thereissanDther Of the same name which
consists Of sap oozing from leaves. fis IS
Another class of insects is called Hymenop-
terra, comprehending bees, wasps, ants, ich-
neumon flies, together with many other in-p
sects. 'sGon abroad in the summer time,"
says Dr. Harris, .'and you will behold the
saw-fy making holes in leaves with her dou-3g
ha bnl hal
with her augur into the solid trunks Of trees;
they viii not fail to observe and admire thss
untiring scrutiny Of the ichneumon-hies,t thoselo
little busy-bodies. forever on the alert, andc
prying into every place to find the elurking 4
caterpillar, grub, or maggot, wherein to- thrust
their eggs :-the curious dwellings produced :
by the gall-hies, and inhabited by their
young the elay-cells of the mud wasp, plas-
tered against the walls of our houses, each
one containing single egg, together witla
number Of living spiders, caught and impris-
oned solely for the use Of the little mason's
young, which thus have constantly before
them an ample supply Of fresh provisions ;--at
the holes of the stump wasp, stored with hun-
dreds of horse-fies, for the same purpose -.
the skill of the leaf-cutter bee in cutting out
the semicircular pieces Of leaves for her patch
work nest ;--the thiInble-shaped shells Of the
ground-bee, hidden in clusters, under some
AOOo6 stCHd II We ltctAAs5 Attfuo VI AAbhH 4A0r
ments ofstempered clay, and stored with bee-.s
bread, the work of many weeks for the indus
trious laboref the waxen cells made by the
honey bee, without any teaching upon pure
ly. mathematical principles, measured only
with her antene, and wrought with her jaws
and tongue; the water-tight nests Of the hor-
net and wasp, natural paper makers from the
beginning Of time, who are not obliged touse4
rags Or ropes in the formation of their durable
paper combs, but have applied to this purpose
hbres of wood, material that the art Of man
has not been able to manufacture into paper;
the herculaaIi lahors of ants in throwing up
their hillocks, or mining their galleries, com5
pared wherewith, if the small size of the la
boref be taken INTO account; the efforts Of man
in his proudest monuments. his pyramids,
and his catacornbs, dwindle into insigniic-
ance.y 4sge4s as ,a so8s IA
5Willys W. Benedict, aged sixteen
years, the youngest son Of the editor Of the
B,srssa0toa Free Press, was drowned. onta
Wednesday morning, near Winooski Falls,
in. that town. While fishing alone from sons
rocks, he doubtless slipped into the water.
which was very deep, aud beng unable to
swim, perished Immediately. Is3s
At Democratic meeting held Il
Staunton, H., 26th uit., the Nebraska oil
was denounced, Judge Douglas was 06ifsa d
upon to resign his seat IN the Senate. and
Hon. Thomas H. Benton was nofn1nafad as
the next Democratic candidate for tho piesi-
deney. N4led lf
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