Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1919 — Insects in Glaciers. [ARTICLE]

Insects in Glaciers.

Few people know that in the glaciers of the western national parka live several species of minute insects, hopping about like tiny fleas, They are harder to see than the so-called sand fleas of the seashore, because much smaller. Slender, dark brown worms live in countless millions in the surface ice. Microscopic, rose-colored plants also thrive in such-vast numbers that they tint the surface have and there.