Bisbee daily review., 1914-06-25
REVEALS STRANGE
PARTS OF ANIMAL
KINGDOM IN TRACT


the aristocrats. the philosophers and
/ the "hoboos" Of the insect world are
described in a communication to the
National Geographic Society," at
Washington, d. c., by David Fairchild.
the plant explorer who has secured the
world for plants Of economic value and
introduced them into the United
States.
In describing the peculiar habits and
remarkable achievements of insects.
be says the champion aeronaut is the
king grasshopper, which has the abil-
ity to jump 100 times It's length. 1t can
also sail for ] 1000 miles before the
wind. These grasshoppers sometimes
go in such numbers that they make
cloud Of 1000 square miles fin extent
"lts great front lip hides a pair Of
jaws as effective as a hay-chopper, and
/ it has an appetite as voracious as that
/ Of q hippotamus," writes Mr. Fair
child. A young chick finds itself shut
inside the egg-shell and must work IFS
way out alone. but the young grass
hoppers find themselves the whole
nestful-shut in a hardened case in
the ground made by their mother and
lit takes a half dozen of them working
together to dislodge the lid which
shuts them in.
The carrying power of the song
Of the cricket is extraordinary; there
are species whose strident notes can
be heard for a mile, although their
/ little bodies are scarcely more than
an inch in length The males alone
are musical, and it is reasonable to
/ suppose, since the females have ears
in their fore legs, that they are sing
| ing to their mates and not to man
kind AS one listens to their friend
I ly song 1t lis hard to appreciate what
fighters they are among themselves.
the larger ones even turning canni-
balls when food is scarce.
"Of all creatures Of our houses, the
cockroach is the most detested.
Housewives may be surprised to learn
| that cockroach can live FIVE years.
and that it takes a year to develop to
maturity The female lays her eggs
/ in a horny capsule like a spectacle
case, which she carries about with her
until she is ready to deposit it in
some suitable place Later she returns
to help her baby cockroaches out OF
their shells
THE song Of the cicada is the nois-
lest in the insect world. The l7-year
cioada has been called the Rip Van
Wrinkle OF the insect world. From it's
tiny eggs there issues a creature with
soft white body and mole-like front
| legs. IL hurries to the ground and dis
| appears beneath its surface some
times to a depth Of 20 feet For II
years 10 digs its way around in abso.
Lutte darkness. and then comes to the
surface to join i'm amarriage revelry
of few brief weeks. It is a full
Pledged creature Of the air. though
eucased still in grave-cIOthes of parch-
Imeut; but 10 soon splits these up the
back. pulls itself out dries it's power
full wings, and flies away with the
whirr Of an aerodrome TO live but
few brief weeks.
The social organization of the ants
has been the admiration of human
| beings from the earliest times, be-
cause the interest of the individual is
merged SO completely into that of the
colony. Theirs is an organization of
females. The workers are reuales,
/ fbr e,fGfere ono frr,.1a.- tH, ,,,r,-.-..
are females, and there is one queen
mother for them an, who lays all the
/ eggs Of the colony The males of any
colony are but mates for the young
queens. Together with them they
leave the nest ON their marriage
/ day and together make their marri-
age flight, but as soon as this Is over
they die and the colony gets on easily
/ without them.
"The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is so
complete between the butterfly
and the numerous velvety green worm
that il is no wonder that for cenur-
I les no connection between the two
/ careers Of these creatures was sus
pected. In general it is true that
mo moth or butterfly is injurious to
plants except I'm its larval stage, and
herein has laid the clever deception .
which has doubtless protected these .
gay mating creatures of the air from
Ithe systematic attacks Of man untu
quite recent times.
The spider world has a vagabond
which builds no nest or web being
content to use her marvellous silk I'm
/ the construction only of a sac In
which TO lay her eggs II does not
grow 20 be more than half an inch In
length. but IL is among the most ac-
tive Of an spiders, and in the United
STATES alone there are nearly a score
OF species o fthese little soldiers of
fortune living nowhere and roaming
the damp fields In search of prey
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