. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. The Cows that Ants Milk 21 always setllin^ in a cheese, all ready-made iood ior them, without the trouble or exertion of hunting. Creatures which reproduce at such a rate, how- ever, invariably pay the ju-nalty for their rapid increase bv an equally rapid and enormous death- rate ; were it otherwise, the offspring of a siui^le pair of codiish (with their million e^j^s) would soon turn the sea into one solid mass of cod ; while the. NO. rOMIC KNKMY WHO I'OSKS AS MAN. descendants of a single viviparous aph
. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. The Cows that Ants Milk 21 always setllin^ in a cheese, all ready-made iood ior them, without the trouble or exertion of hunting. Creatures which reproduce at such a rate, how- ever, invariably pay the ju-nalty for their rapid increase bv an equally rapid and enormous death- rate ; were it otherwise, the offspring of a siui^le pair of codiish (with their million e^j^s) would soon turn the sea into one solid mass of cod ; while the. NO. rOMIC KNKMY WHO I'OSKS AS MAN. descendants of a single viviparous aphis would cover the earth with a ten feet thick layer of teeminj; L^reen-llies. However, Nature has remedies in store for them. Storms of rain and hail kill mvriads of aphides ; sudden chaiiL^es of weather wilt them and nip them up; imuunerabU'enemies make an honest livelihood out of them. Another of these ubiqui- tous foes is ^M'aphically represented in Xo. 8—the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. Toronto : W. Briggs
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