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Pop ular Science Department A DEPARTMENT OF INTEREST TO EDITED
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tops. The aclutt insect fecds upon sap and the julce of fruits but rloes very little damage. 'I'ho lritl)its of the seventeen year cicada are ox{rctly similar save that in this specios tl)c gnr]) or larva May Fties exist in the adult state for spends seventeen ycars beneath the only a few hours. 1'hey are easily distlnguished by the shape of the wings, the two lonEi thread-like appendages on the abdomen. The mouth parts end of the'wanting for in the adult sta.te are nearly @ these creatures eat nothing. They differ dW A from all other insects in molting once af ter reaching the winS:ed state. 'Ihe May Irlies are among: the most delicate and a of creatures with lacelike wings body so transparent that the juices or =f..=r" blood can be seen pulsatinS: within. E Often on warm summer evenings thesc delicate beings swarm about street lamps in thousands and actually darken the light by the immense numbers clinSing to the glohe while the pavements beneath are made stippery by the deaal bodies of the myriads of insects falling to the ground. While their winged existSeventeen Ycar Locttst ence is so brief yet in their larval state they are far from delicate or short lived. A-Eg& Sltts in TwiE. B-EEts. C-Pupa Case in the mud at 'Ihe young XIay Fly livesponds and feecls ground. More thatr tw0nty distittct the bottom of streams or tracAd small insecls Tl 6roocls of lhis insocl hnve booll broods upon \vater |1Iants and scvcral is a sLrong, Iively litLle ereature wilh anal as in many places localities thcso irl iniec.ts the frinaed giIls along its sides and with overiap, times (luring a Deriod of scveral feathery jointecl appendages pro- ipie"i's.vural jccting from its taiI. ft has strong se.ienteen years. r\uother southern speirooked legs and can both swim and wal1t cies requires thirteen years to develo!' rapidly. This creature molts of ten!- trtany people are very superstitiotls iil sometimes as many as twenty tirnes,ancl after the ninth molt four 1ittle sacs bud out from its thorax. 'Ihese are the bexinning of the rving:s and rvith each follou'ing change of skin they increase in size until the last skin of the larva is shed, the gil1s ancl mouth parts clisappear and the insect cones forth a winged May FIy after living for two or three years beneath the water' Strangely enough this delicate creature is not yet adult and still another chang:e must be undergone. After flying about for a short distance the shln is shed again,-a thin layer coming olf from every part of its body, even from the win8:s,-anat thc ful1y aclult insect is even more delicate and phantom.like than before. It now has but one duty to perform anal that is to lay its eggs. The eggs are deposited either on the surface of the water or beneath stones'lteneath the surface, accorcling to the species. lYhen the egg:s are laid in the latter situations the mother May F1y wraps her win8:s about her budv ind usins them as a diving bell goei dowrr into thc water to deposit her eB:gs.
Nature Puzzles ancl their Answers Iruua Moth.
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Luna Moth
Luna Moth, sometimes calIed the "Queen of the Nisht." The larva, or caterpillar, is a stout pale-green "worm" $.ith bands of lighter groenish or yellolvish white betrMeen each segment and a yellowish
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Seventeen Year Locust in Various Stages
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regartl to these insects and it is quito commonly thought that their appearance ind.icates war. As the insectC do not appear in all places in the same yee,r the utter foolishness of such a supeistition is eviclent. The common cicaala is quite large and is dark, greenish-blach with lighter green markings while the SeVenteen year specles is mueh smallor and is black ntarked with dull red. Tt is dou-b_tful_ if they ever cause any ap].)reciable damage, although at times the1. 66oo"i, their eg:gs in fruit, or in grailt heads, thus causing local damage to crops. frdinu .trrow Points. F. J6ha5sn;-Most state colleges or lnuseums will purcttase first class collections of Tndian relics, and L. 1A-. Stilltvell ut L)ead-wood, N. IJ., formerly purchascd
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struction or excavation of these mounds. F ly. Harold J. Row:-The insect sent is a, species of insect known as a May FIy. The May X'lies belong to the order floltenietida from the Greek word epM&y
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very useful insects as they feed uDon other_insecls such as caterpillai;, giu6s: etc.-- There are over f,tO0 dpecies'ti;il; rn North America and many of arc very be-autifrllty colored witti them spors ot gold, purnle, green ormetaiil,, silvcr.. l ney are l ne most importa nt of Dr(.da.ceou-s in..ects tor Iot only do the'arlult b-eet'les destroy great nufrber" ,ous insects but the larvae also feed "i injJ,:_ ui,orr srmitar creaturcs. The larva{. arc lon*. slightly tapered and tive in ai.t -sl-tu-j ations under stones. pte. Th;y ch;se a;,t devour-other insects whereas the adulti hunt allout arrd sprins upon their prey sudd
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Year Locusf. pease:_The sent ls - IJertry 'seventeen--.rioar pupa-case of thespecimen the locust. or periodicat cicada. ;i'hi"sr," i;_ sects are not true loousts at all lui aie Ilemipterous insects retated to ltiJi,ilar --ilie Ifoppers, Scale Insects, etc., wjiite real locusts are Grasshotrpers. 'l'h,,-com_ mon locust or Cicada ilso kno rvn -is "Harvest X.ly,, is a well known JrrO mon insect in summer. This ""ri_ inseit appears every year as the larvae require only-t'wo years to develop ana rneid aie two broods. The eggs of ttre clcada, iie deposited in slits in twigs ot trees. Theie eggs hatch in a few weeks and the young larvae drop to earth and bury themselves beneath the surf ace. .fhe)live by sucking the sap anrl .juicrrs from roots and when fully growrr crawl to the surface ,Ihe and climb up some convenient object. skin on the back slrlits or,cn May Fly and Larva and the full grown cicada lrushes out and in a few minutes spreacli its winqs helneroa meaning lasting but a day. and flies away l-o spend Lhe tew iemai-n_ This name is most a,ppropria,te as the ing weeks of its life among the tree Sewenteen
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,lrrother f,'reak Egg. James If. Milier:-The ege; reached mc -hut.was rather badty Uro"t<"en. Uv far []lc_oddest "freak" hen's eggii I iihave seen. I regret that it was to; badly
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broken to photograph, but the accornlrarrying drawing \vjll show my readerri what a rernarkable egg it is. fforse lfair Snalies, lXoles, Etc. A. R. Woodro$.:-I{orse hairs will not come to life in \yater. This is an and exttemely foolish supersLition. old Halr ljnakes. are really a species offforie hair worm {Gordius } aild are in va_ rrous lnsects. 'l-he earlylrarasitic part of their existence iq passed in crtbkits oisi*liji insects. W-hen mature ttre worms'-1eave the insecj.and deposit tt eSSJ i" di-i "i" taken l)laces. lhe eggs are therr thb system of various other insocts,into or clo_ mestic animals, and are often ,t'criosttea rn waterrng lroughs and similar J)laces. 1'he resemblance to a horsc naii"airci th,eir occurrence in u,ntoring aiouB-h;. wlrere horses drinl<, Iras t,,,f to tfre te"tiei among. tgnorant l)oul)l'. illilt iltCy are real -rrorse_ fl-airs wh ich havt: Il(:(,ome endowed. with life. .. Moles do not eat vo!{ctobles unless they are the hirling l,lacu of \yorms or
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othcr insects. 'llrcrc is no doubt that moles are hig:h11, b0rro(icial, as they feeal exclusively on insects and d-evour immense numbors. I lr lalvns or flower beds theif turrnels are unsightly ancl injure the roots, but otherwise they should be protec ted. Zinc ointmont, bichloride of mercury or any disilrfccting and healing ointment lyill cr4re the sores caused by ticks. Grnlre Vlrre Bcctle, fo Moth. llarry \-ine:-1'he Beetle sent is the Gra1r6 \-ine Beette (Pelidnota punctata). illllo larva lives in decayed wborl rvhiie tlro itrlull feeds upon the leaves of the
liilt any man. The bcst thing to do if biLreI is to sucl( the wound and tie a ligaturc around the limb above the bite. llreat with the Permanganate solution and heep continually moving and take frequent small doses of some kind of of any stirnulant stimulant. Large doses'worse, for - the]' only make matters stuiefy the patient and realuce heari action. which- is precisely the clfecI oI the poison. Small doses rcpeated by .rrontlv stimulatA heart. acl.ion, and-freionstairtty walkirrg about the stupid' sls6lry fsr,.tillg is avoided. flirds Eggs. is difficult to .Tohn \Yalthausen:-It idtirrtify your eggs by lhe descrjplions, them a^s guesses name I should brtt a5iJiioiu!:" No. l lndis:o Buniing' No 2' V/estern 3' No' rt ii<anias Kinsbirtl. (ttre iSluebirds frequentlv- have eiueuira -iuriite i,',i. eicsr' No' 4. Probably the \\'estern n-ood Pewec. No.5' Loggcrhead shrikes often llreed at odd season-s' i'ra-r- inirI llkelv tlrev misht breed.ir] r\o' vour section as early as ],ay lst' but '6. Probablv an -trnglish Sparrow, possibly a Cowbird's egg' lPcarls.
grape vine. The Chysalls i-q that of the 10 moth { Automeris lo). Tlre larva of this moth fepds ui)on nearly cvery bush ancl tree as well as uDon many vegetables. It is pale, bright, green 'ivith a
occur ln SreDhen Whitley:-Pearls species oT fresh water and sea - -rn.r' of our mussels "r-iiors water iresh Slietli. lakes and rivers furnish ve-ry ivestern -pear-15 ; valuable of ten a"d f:"",iiif "t common oyster occasionally while our and. colorin rr,:r'ii ne".l", fhal are"dull or-Liitr'"- uit ue. t no big conch she-lls of Lhe trooics also have pearls whlch arc ,:"=t-"lirii'a"tL if nerfect- in shape -and besl color'arc often ver'.y valuable. Thepof,rl iountl in tho salt waler ".r.ris-"ieot Pannma, South America, thc irviier E"ast-Indies intl other tropical seas' and b-eds of the,lnFSl c(,mo from thA pearl Ceylon. PAalls do not occur jn all pec'rr ovir-ers. but onll- in a few and are due t6 irritation or discase inside Ihe oyster shell. Recent investigations and experiments seem to prove that many of the sma'll pea|ls are caused by Ihe egBS of.a in taoe-rvorrn. Thc adutt worm lives fish ih'e intcstine of sharks and similar ifiit prn.u upon the pearl oysters. llence if the pcart olrslcrs were extermlnatco the sfrdrks wdulcI not be inf ected anal coulil not spread the parasites, and .Iikewise if the- sharks were kiiled off there number *outO tre a areat decrease in Lhe of ucarls. .\sido from this. pearls are or any clirt sand' bits of often formed by lodged^lreother foreign object 'and becoming Chithe and animal iween the ineit nese of ten insert tiny leacl or metal after i-.scs inside of the ovsLers and. a t iine Lhey bccomc covered with the Deall and Dresent a very strange appearince. Fishes are Jlso sometimes entrapned within the shclls and bAcome iniasod in pearl and in fact any obiect out is #nicn ttrd oyster cannot throw soon coverecl"with pearl to prevent irricontation. 'Ihe oysters which do not quite tain Dcarls are saved as thcy are vatuairlc I o use in nlal(ing "mother of pearl" buttons, etc. Amerlcan Btttern. Damon Bros.:-The heatl, foot and featllcls scnt arc florn a species of heron l(nolvn as Ihe "bittern," "stake driver," "Indian hen," etc. The bittern occurs over nearl). the entire United States as well as in Canacla, Central America, severaL of the West lndies antl Bermuda. It is not a g'ame bird and although edible tho llosh is coarsc and fishy 1i1(e thc ol.llol lr(,r'r)rs. lt: ls rnrtittly 11()(ltillrllLl in llg ltrr.lrlts rttttl lts llt(r, lrt tt, tlttct't', lotttl
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The ordinary persol rvould smile at the possibility of lvindo\ys through which he or she could watch the people in the street, but through which the.people "in the street could only see themselyes, lret this is now possillle through Flatinizeal glass, says Popular Mechanics. By constructing a window of this glass a person can stanal close behind the panes in an unilluminated room and behold clearly everything going on outside, while passers-by looking at the window would behold a fine mirror or set of mirrors in x'hich their own flgures would be reflected, while the person inside remained invisible. In Ifrance various tricks havo been deviseal with the aid of this glass. In one, a person, seeing what appears to be an ordina"ry mirror, approaches it to gaze upon himself. r\ sudden chanEfe in the mechanism senos light through the â&#x201A;ŹJlasB from the back, and the startled spectator flnds himself confrontecl by some grotesque figure. Such ril/indows are made by coating a piece of glass with an exceedingly thln layer of a liquial charged with tlatinum and then raised to a red heat. The platinum becomes united to the g1ass, bu1 the latter does noI roa]ly losc its transparency. If placed against a wall, or without a, light behincl it, as above stated, lt acts as an ordinary looking-glass, but when the iight is allowed to come through the glass from the otlter side, as when placed in a window, it is perfectty transparent like ordinary glass.-Popular
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Io Moth each redclish brolvn and white stripe ongreen with stiff side and is cor.ered poisonous most to are very lvhich spines Deoole, Tllo TmpPrial Moth t Iirclps imi,erialisr is noI rare ilr tl]c eastcrn siatcs
Larva of Io Moth a,n(1 can often Ile foun(l ahout electric IieLts. Thc larva feeds upon various 1ris5, nolrbly pine, and. is eilher g-reen, brorvn or blath in color. It is very large ivith long hairs scattereil over its body and with four shorl. spiny horns on the first two segments of the bodY. Decr llead ancl ff,itle. Reuben Garnett:-Try the Crosby tr'risian Fur Co. TheY advertise in The Arnerican 13oy and are reliable first-class peopte for this sort of work.
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Ruhl Moore:-The samples of mica sent are too small to enablc me to judge of f rom a commorcial standI hpir qualitl iroirrt. 'Mica- to bo of val rlc musl occur in irIgc sheots and musL be frcA from 0r,a.rrrc sltots. cl lcl(s or other impertect i'orri attrl ntusL be readily set'arable irlto tlrilr sllcets.
and Blos.:-Thc head.- foo^l". U"-o" or nerolr ferthcls sent atc fl'oln a speclcs i'stake drivcr," n," i;;;';;;"ih"*"iuilt"i :;i",ii* Thc bittern occurs hcn." etc. as lhp pntirA Unjta'l Statessev.r."-'.u"itr: "Canada. C.'ntral Amelica' ;;lt ili. Bermuda'.- Ir J'"^i Jitii. w"ii tntli"s and una althoush ediblc iJliJi',i^'i"iire-6i|rr ine.--ficsn"is coalso an(l fishJ' Iilie -thc In .r ner hcrons. lt is mainly nocturna.l queer' touu its habiLs and its noto is a oL successton. a or boltow like a bull iii."'i. t-,ilii ior"s tll,c tlre sound of- a name "sLal(e the il11,r-'ori"i itrlic, Iro.nce It is c n i n terest ing bi rd and ,i "lvcr." has a. remarltablc hahiL of standlnf, mopointett skv.ward' in *iiti--titt i'il""rl"'s" merely a parf, which position it appeat'sand grass' 'l'his i'nc'ls iu;o"nr:lings ;f ih; 1o discorn a nd ir- ha il', Lli'i i"i,a;ii 'd far less considered usuallv ii6"i,L ii-ii thln ir r"-att'r- is. I-he birtprn's ;';;;"il swamps grounel in the on ;;.it- ia olaccd and the efgs are Pale olive ;;';;=-h"t gIaY in color. or hro\vnish Oof)perllead flnd Coral Snake' is Ct,ester 11. Srvilt:-The Conporhead tol' ol' head a lrazel-brorr n itt cuior rviLlt lo fifteen with and i]"i*ni-c"r'r,"t color i;,-;"i;-i';" darl( snots or Ulotches. ha vll.e lorm ot an ittvert-ed ini'id-"irri,,s ;. i"' ;t;;s t-tri bacl<. The sides an(1 bellv lvjtlt dark snots or blotches' -r, "."."ttotvi"t, o* 30 to 50 inches: stout . in i-""ttr, tened' w.ith iliorr%iiio". -l-taa.l broad, flat itrebt<s or angles of iaws proJectrng: Devoud neck. A deep l)it L'etween eyA ano Scales ridged, or carinated' i'"-"iii]. ---ine Corai snake is a sma1l and beau-srrccies, usually mild ir, disposition tiful provided with poison. fanBs' jct black wrth about I I 'ii-tliouer, 'l'hc color is -ring:s, each bordered with 6ib'"o .ilmso" i"ir"i"-r"a sDotted below with btack. A tait with vellow head: on ieiiotv uanO rings, Sn:rke's Food. Birds' Egga. will -L;d. \\-vatl:-Feed your moceasln .n ii.er. aor65. etc. Old thread cabinets maxe ix,'ettent cabinels for bircls' egE S ii"f-a,"v-ca"e with shallow drawers will ans1,ver.
Toads' Eg,€is. Glenn Gieen:-The tadpoles you found in the uool were probably those of toads for t he roDe-like .ielly masses were the .se rnassds of toads while the little
"6iack seeds" \Tithin \vere the eg8ls. appearFross'eggs are very simiiar injelly-like ance" but-are laid in ilrick' thinmi"se". Black snakes lay otrlong, irrettea eg:gs much like turtles' eggs and bury them in sandy spots. Tame Turtles. T,eo
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eat raw rneat. They are sometimes fond of ham fat cut in sma1l pieces. Oftentimes they refuse to eat at aII and go for l'{)urlB \voodcock. ilronths without apparent discom,.A Na,turalist,,:-The younei wooalcock several fort. 'Iry angle worms and other worms he by if nest near rlorrlrlloss ca.tne from a and "bugs." 'Ihe Y'ater should be \\':ls t()() yotlllg to fly. If his lvin€is w-ere changed as often as dirty or foul. It that does not hurt turtles to carve dates on .r',,11 111qyirlopor], holvever, it is likely lro lrrrrl ll0$itr for some distance and was their shetls if you are careful not to cut irrirrlr',1 l'\'sll'll(ing a telegraph lvire or through the outer she11 anal dralv blood. nir/ls are often found Birrt Sougs flt Ni{iht. iiiriit,,r',,i'J,.r,t. unrrl,t,. t,, ily, rrlihouglr apparently unin-\vm. Lan€lton PraEJer:-I have never jur",t, against telegraph founcl llyil)t{ rrft,'i' a corvbird's egg in a Phoebc's wit'os. nest but see no reason why they should not lay tlrem there. Many birds sing: at R-rll l('iilnk(. llla('N. (-'ocil I Ia,ltsotl: -lrornlitnganate of Pot- nisht. Song: sparrows and catllirds often lvorrttrl is a g:ood thing do so and I have also heard various asll solutioll itt l llrl(lolll)t if a heaithy per- warblers ryake up and sing a few notes ior sturl<o ltitc. I in the micldle of the night. The nest son is ovcr rorrlll' l<i'llct.l hy rattlesnake coYered with fur was undoubtcdly that is friShteneal to victirn tlrc tlsurr,ttv tri[e. deatt, o. clsc alrill'lis t'tttlttl:{lt whlskey to of a nrouse.
cn(iy. I f Dlrr.c0tl rrgrrlrrst rr rvrrll, ()r wltlllt out lI llg]rt bchlnd lt, os al)ove strItod,'llut acts as an ordinary looking-glass, when the light is alloweal to comc through the glass from the other s.ide, as when placed in a window, it is perfectly transparent like ordinary glass,-Popular
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Emperor William, of Germany, derives a large part of his income from the sale of amber. There is only one place ln $'hich amber is found in quanuty: namely, on the coast of Samlanrt, on the Baitic. The German royal house owns a monopoly of the trade. Amber', as it is found .today, is the petrifled. resin of a very ancient forest- 'Ihe layer of earth containing it runs flfteen or twenty thousand feet out under the soa. In ancient times the inhabitants of the district used to gather seaweed thrown up on the beach by a storm, in the hope of flnding pieces of amber attacherl to the weeds; nowadays, however, divers go down and search the sea bottom, while a mine has been sunk on the shore and tunnels have been run out under the bed of the ocean. About 912,500 worth of amber ls taken every day. Amber dust is so]al to incense-makers. Small pieces with flne colors go to maLe ornaments that are much prized by the Persians and the tribes of India, while larger pieces are used to make pipestems. New Use of PaBer.
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Germany manufactures annually 425,000 tons of paper, England 260,000 tons, France 190,000 tons, Austria 155,000 tons llifl". Slr^rrg and a^.urDai.y and Italy 120,00 tons. But the United 20thCcnru.v "Tal,c Uosn' rlc sl,oorpr. uivFn f,,r s.llins 2i^irpr.kagas 'f fc.rl.$ Silvpr States makes and uses more paper than Stocl NOVELTY liasy seuer. €ach. at 10c Ncedles all Europe, the anual production amount- COIIPANY. Box 126, Essox Street Station'PEEnITESS Boston' Uess. ing: to 1,330,000 tons. Roofs of paper and comDressed wood pulp have proved successful. A Chicago firm makes paper garmen ts which are so light, flexible and convenient that they are larg:ely used in hospltals. The paper is made of the bark of the paper mulSenil us 10o in silverfor olrr latest lluslraled cetalogue and wo sill Benil berry tree and is tubsizeal and flneiy you FREE a trick worth 25a. craped. Several sheets are superposed and sewn together. 'Ihe garments have THE EAILEY & TRIPP CO., narrow woolen binding:s, buttons, buttonBox 415 Cailbridgeport' tlass. holes and other fastenings. Paper cigars are made by steeping paper pulp for tcn days in a decoction of cigar clipplngs, passing' it between cylinders and rol-ting the sheets into the form of a, cigar. Paper bottles and grain bags are made ln Philadelphia. A recent inveniion is the paper horseshoe, which, according to the inventor, is more dura.ble as wcll as lighter than the iron shoe and elilninates all danger of injury to the hoof, as it is attached, not by nails, but by cenloni. Two German engineers have rnventecl a VACATIOIV MONEY sort of re-enforced. paper, composed of paper pulp, linen and raw silk, re- BoysBitl.?*"T""L',Jit:ii" enforced with steel wire. The new ma- ?50,000 sold the last three terial is light, waterproof, fireproof and nonths. Send for special suitable for the construction of vessels, and sample 10 cents, including warships, automobiles and oth- prices . er vehicles, for railways, street pave- CHARLES S.TEUBNER C ments and many other uses.-Scientifi.c
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