Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1901 — Leaven as Insect Incubators. [ARTICLE]

Leaven as Insect Incubators.

The leaves of several plants often contract in a remarkable way to form lodging places for young insects to be hatched from eggs laid In the substance of the leaf. When an egg has been laid in a leaf <jf the chickweed it contracts into globular form. The 'juniper leaf sends oat a small globular body, or excrescence, while the leaf of the poplar puts forth a juice that dries Into a red globe.