SCIENCE AND INSECTS
"Kill that fly" ig the universal cry and we wonder why science'cannot put an end :tifb f ays hay,c b. eat«n the. great beasts of the land and gained against the strongholds of venemous reptiles,,but;make little^ headway against the insects, who alone re^ main unsubdued. The housefly, is without doubt one of our most dangerous foes, for-it goes on all sorts of filth and rubbish heaps. The wasp, which is looked upon an-another pest, is really more a friend to. man m that at least it kills numerous (.fees, and other hurtful insects. An ob|seryer ot a smalL wasps' nest found .their daily average of flies brought home from the beginning of the season was over two thousand, and as the season advanced their number might be multiplied by twelve. It is so often the insect we feav most that is a friend in disguise. Even mosquitoes have their use, and except for them our pools would be overcrowded with life.and fluid tombs of corpses. When in the water in a larval ionn they devour substauces which would otherwise cause corruption.. But it is when they "put on wings" that they become dangerous and carry microbes fatal alike to human and animal life,
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 20
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206SCIENCE AND INSECTS Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 20
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