GROUND INSECTS.
DESTRUCTION BY ELECTRICtTI'. The elcotrical destruction of ground insects'has just been' successfully carried out by. Dr. Helberger, of Munich. The experimenter buried a copper bar in tho earth and connected it with an electric wire. Immediately thousands of worms and insects of all' kinds rose to the surface in. flight from tho uncomfortable iujlnenco of the' current.' When the earth was turned up subsequently a huge insect massacre was found lo have- taken place. "; —'■ " '" ' "
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1341, 19 January 1912, Page 8
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76GROUND INSECTS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1341, 19 January 1912, Page 8
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