Litchfield enquirer., 1857-05-07
Curious Facts of Natural History.

A single female house-fy produces in one
season 20,OS0,320
/ Some female spiders produce nearly 1000
eggs.
DIR. Bright published case of an egg pro-
ducing an insect so years after it must have
been laid
About thirty frcsll-water springs are discov-
cred under the sea, on the south of the Per-
sian Gulf
A wasp's nest usually contains Is, 900 or
l6, 900 cells.
The Atlantic Ocean is estimated as three
pes, and the Pacific as four ailes dep.
Th,re are SIX or seven generations Of gnats
in a summer, and each lays $50 eggs.
There are about 9 600 cells in square foot
! of honcy-comb. 5000 bees weigh pound.
A swarm of bees contains from 10 600 to
10000 in a natural state and from so, 600 to
40 900 in a hive.
The bones of birds are hollow, and filed
with air instead Of marrow.
! A COW eats 100 pounds of green food every
"a hours, and yield five quarts, or ten pounds
of milk
Fish are common in the seas Of Su"inam
with four cycs--two OF them on horns which
grew on the top of their heads.
duce one pound of silk but it would require
$1,000 spiders, all females, to produce one
pound of web
Captain Beaufort saw, near Smyrna, in 1871
! cloud of ocusts as miles long, and 800 yards
deep, containing, as he calculated, 100 bill
lions.
| Lewenhocck reckoncd 1000 divisions in
the cornca Coulter coat of the cye) of o but
tcrhy, each one of which he thought possessed
a crystalline lens. Spiders, etc, are similarly
provided for
The spring of watch weighs OBS of a
grain pound of iron makes $4,000. The
pound of steel costs Cd. !; single spring. I'd. J;
so that 10000 produces 44l6.
With view to collect their webs for silk,
1000 SPIDERS were once obtained, but they
soon killed each other Maj utacturcrs and
war never thrive together.
Spiders have four paps for spinning their
threads, each pap having 900 holes, aud the
fine web itself the union of 900 threads. No
spider spins more than four webs, and when
the fourth is destroyed they seize on the webs
of Others
Every pound of cochinea contains 10000
insects boiled to death, and from 800 0O0 to
100, 900 pounds are annually brought to Eu-
rope lOf SCafict ana crimson ayes.
A quecn-hce will lay 900 eggs daily for 90
Or 60 days and the eggs IRE hatched in three
days. A single queen-bce has been stated to
produce 100 600 bees in season.
The quantity of water discharged into the
sea by all the rivers is the world is estmAted
at 36 cubic miles in u day hence it would
take 35, 900 years to create a circuit OF the
whole sea through clouds and rivers
| RIVER water contains about % grains of So
! id matter to every cubic foot. Hence, such g
river as the Rhine carries to the sea every day
/ l. $50 cubs. feet of sand Or StUnc
! Molr-hillS are curio,1sy turtued Iiy all outer
arch imp"rvious to rain 2nd an internal plat
! form with drains and covered ways on which
the pair and young reside. The mules live OH
worms and roots, and bury themselves in any
! sol in few minutes.
Few insects live more than year in thclr
! perfect state. Their first state is tie egg then
the caterpillar. then the crystals or puln, and
finally the provocative form. But in these
changes there are infinite degrees aud varieties
of transition, all Of which constitute the pleas
ing and very instructive study of Entomology.