Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1919 — insects Have Short Life. [ARTICLE]

insects Have Short Life.

As Hgarn truly-said, the incidents of the insect world are mostly of a nightmare character—-witness the nuptial flight of the bee and the devour-

ing by the female spider of her briijpgroom.' Whether they- have wings or stings or both' or none* theirs, is the life of the prayer or the preyed upon and they can-defend themselves feebly only by protective .coloring, or perhaps an unpleasant taste whictiTnakes them Inedible to birds that would otherwise eat them. Whether they creep on the ground or appear to flutter Joyously among the flowers, their struggle for existence is fierce and incessant Thus does stark science brusir awgy the funay fancies of a sentimental older era.