Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-01
LAYING 10000 EGGS DAILY Y
some Astonishing Fcats IN the Nature
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eve are the army of the great God;
we produce 30 eggs. II we produced q
hundred we should consume the whole ole
earth and all that is in It,"
Thus, say the Arabs, the locust adj
dressed Mahomet. And although tho
locust actually lays many more than
hundred eggs, there are many other
creatures whose power of multiplica-
ton vastly exceeds that OF this terri
bic insect plague.
The common house fly is an Instance
in point. 1t has been computed that
one fly an the goth Of March Us re pre-
sented by 800 OH the Gath of April. the
800 become 10000 by May %, and by
August s. the number has been squared
twice more, making the total progeny
amount to the appalling ana 1ncal-
Fculable number of $500 millions!
The house fly lays eggs, the flesh tiy
or blue bottle produces living larvae.
Surprising the female to produce b9
young. a very small estimate. and nall
OF these to be females, a single season
would see one blue bottle turn into oOS
millions Of flesh devourlng insects.
What merciful thing is it that we
have so many allies, in the shape Of
birds and wasps and fy-eating Insects,
who combine to keep down our enemy.
the fly!
Nearly all insects increase rapidly
The queen bee willslay eggs at the rate
of 300 an hour, but even she cannot
compete with the termite, the so-called
white ant. The queen termite, has
been known to lay $4,000 eggs day.
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a day for the whole OF the laying sea-
son. which lasts about month.
The life OF the queen bee, Is how
ever, longer than that of the termite.
She lives and goes on laying for four
or five summers. and In her lifetime.
lays at least million and half Of
eggs. }5 s8
All who have gardens know what a
pest the green fly or aphis becomes. 1t
plants like magic.
The aphis Isl in one way. the most
Startling of all forms of insect life,
for although the females can and do
lay eggs, its usual method of increase
is by sort of budding process, tho
young growing on the bodies of the
parent exactly as Brussels sprouts
grow out of the stalks Of the plant
The old produce young at the rate of
Is day, and as the young are at
once mature each can produce Its 25
on the following day.
1t positively frightens one to work
this multiplication out to a conctd-
sion, for 1t means this. Supposing that
the aphlde could Increase, and multiply
without interference. the 18th genera
ton would be a number too long to
quote here. Put down at and follow
itswlth 2s noughts and you win be
within few millions of it.
$f But fish are champion egg layers.
The average number of eggs in a hail.
but is three and a half millions. while
n good-sized cod may contain as many
as nine millions. a small, one-pound
sole has been found to have $4,000
eggs.
or land animals the rabbit holds the
palm for rapid increase. A rabbit
breeds seven times a year, producing
about eight young at a time.
1t will be seen, therefore, that the
bird as egg layer comes last OF ALL
Indeed, the poor common or garden
hen whose eggs are those we most
cscteem, Is left hopelessly out of ma
lures csg-laying race,--Pearsorl's
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