Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1919 — Find Insects Which Are Reputed Gold-Producers [ARTICLE]

Find Insects Which Are Reputed Gold-Producers

In these days of gold shortage it Is, interesting to know that there are Insects in this world which are said to be gold-producing! The most popular of the species of beetles which contain gold and silver is the golden rosechafer. It is a very handsome, yellow beetle, with a metallic lusted, and its size is about as big ds the end of a man's thumb. The most remarkable, gold beetles, however, are to be found in Central America. At first sight onp wpuld think, the beetle an "actual piece of goldTuntH it moves. The head and wing-cases are brilliantly polished with a luster like pure gold. It is very strange, too, that silver beetles exist in the same country. Unfortunately there is no fact at the bottom of the fancy.