Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1893 — Insects and Numbers. [ARTICLE]

Insects and Numbers.

As indicating the nower of insects to it erstand numbers, an English ecieni states that the females of a speoiea saw-fly, among whom the males arc eon-iderftlly smaller size than the h**r sex, regularly assign to the egg \.rn which the larva of the male is to erge only five little wounded caterars for the nourishment of the larva, Idle they give to the egg which conns a female saw-fly ten such caterers.