. Agriculture of Maine : ... annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Maine. Agriculture -- Maine. 222 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. room they will soon revive and crawl around as if nothing had happened to stop the action of their vital functions. The ants belong to the highest order of insect life, and if a temperature of —40° doesn't deprive them of the vital spark it is safe to conclude that any of the lower orders could stand a like condi- tion. Many people thought that the weather conditions of last win- ter were such as to destroy the brown-tail larvae in the State. From
. Agriculture of Maine : ... annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Maine. Agriculture -- Maine. 222 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. room they will soon revive and crawl around as if nothing had happened to stop the action of their vital functions. The ants belong to the highest order of insect life, and if a temperature of —40° doesn't deprive them of the vital spark it is safe to conclude that any of the lower orders could stand a like condi- tion. Many people thought that the weather conditions of last win- ter were such as to destroy the brown-tail larvae in the State. From a careful examination made in the spring I found that of. Fig. 8. ten nests examined from Bar Harbor containing 3,322 cater- pillars only 13 per cent were dead. In ten nests from George- town containing 3,157 caterpillars about ii per cent were dead; while from Oxford and Augusta quite a number of nests gave no live caterpillars. Of course last winter was a very exceptional one. Almost invariably the small colonies showed a much greater per cent of dead larvae than the large ones. It is just the same in wintering bees. Very often a small colony will not winter well, while a strong one will come through all 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 Maine. Dept. of Agriculture. Augusta : [State of Maine, Dept. of Agriculture
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