. Book of Texas . A Pound Ray Fish Caught Off Galveston Jetties By a Man Seventy-five Years Old. Photo by 77. 77. Morris, Galveston, Texas A Days Catch of Silver King Tarpons THE WILD LIFE 103 Fish and Oyster Commissioner, the Gulf fishes constituteone of the greatest natural resources of Texas. Ants, wasps, bees, scorpions, spiders, beetles, and butter-flies are numerous in variety and quantity. The centi-pede and the tarantula and the vinegarroon are really anasset, for they rarely or never harm any one, and they arethe basis of many horribly interesting tales and an objectof never-fa
. Book of Texas . A Pound Ray Fish Caught Off Galveston Jetties By a Man Seventy-five Years Old. Photo by 77. 77. Morris, Galveston, Texas A Days Catch of Silver King Tarpons THE WILD LIFE 103 Fish and Oyster Commissioner, the Gulf fishes constituteone of the greatest natural resources of Texas. Ants, wasps, bees, scorpions, spiders, beetles, and butter-flies are numerous in variety and quantity. The centi-pede and the tarantula and the vinegarroon are really anasset, for they rarely or never harm any one, and they arethe basis of many horribly interesting tales and an objectof never-failing interest to the newcomer. At certain timesin the fall swarms of crickets surround electric lights andpile up around buildings so as to disturb city sanitary de-partments. It is sometimes possible to scoop up beetlesby the shovelful; flocks of grasshoppers occasionally harmthe crops; plaster ants (really a kind of wood louse) some-times daub acres of grass with mud; flies and mosquitoesare sufficiently common to cause many houses to be heel fly, the screw fly, and the horn fly, ea
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