Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1919 — Eats a Thousand Bugs. [ARTICLE]

Eats a Thousand Bugs.

A cliff swallow will eat a thousand files, mosquitoes, wheat-midgets or beetles that injure fruit trees in a day and therefore are to be encouraged, says the American Forestry association, of Washington, which is conducting the nation-wide campaign among school children for bird-house building. This bird is also known as the cave swallow because it plasters its nest on the outside of a barn or other building up under the eaves. Colonies of several thousand will build their nests together on the side of a cliff. These nests shaped like a flattened gourd or water-bottle are made of bits of claV, rolled into pellets and lined with straw or feathers. This bird winters in the tropics.