A May-fly lives only a few hours ns a perfeut insect, but it has previously passed two or threo years in the water its a larva. Certain butterflies and moths, born without the power to take food, last but a day or 60, but they have had long feeding spells as caterpillars, mid a trancc-liko wonder of transformation in the chrysalis stage. Probably slirows, of which enormous numbers die in the autumn, are I the ■ shortest-lived llllWMUalß,
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 6, 2 October 1920, Page 7
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77Page 7 Advertisements Column 4 Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 6, 2 October 1920, Page 7
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