Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . COTTON BOLLSBoll at the left cut open to show the larva of the weevil feeding. 101. jNIuch more mightbe said about insects,but it is hopedthat enough has beengiven in the forego-ing pages to showthat insects play avery important rolein the household ofnature, especiallj^ intheir relation to man-kind, and deserve tobe much better andmore widely kno^vnthan they are at present. Besides their usefulness or harm-fulness, their often strange life histories, their great varia-tion in form and color, habit, behavior, and adaptation totheir })eculiar mode of life is very fas
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . COTTON BOLLSBoll at the left cut open to show the larva of the weevil feeding. 101. jNIuch more mightbe said about insects,but it is hopedthat enough has beengiven in the forego-ing pages to showthat insects play avery important rolein the household ofnature, especiallj^ intheir relation to man-kind, and deserve tobe much better andmore widely kno^vnthan they are at present. Besides their usefulness or harm-fulness, their often strange life histories, their great varia-tion in form and color, habit, behavior, and adaptation totheir })eculiar mode of life is very fascinating and entertain-ing. Eiven artists find perhaps no ])etter objects for theirstudies of the effect of color combination than among insects. C. S. COTTONY MAPLE SCALE * Rcgiirding injtirious insects attacking crops in the war garden, it may beof interest to know that the U. S. Department of Agriculture publislied apamphlet, Farmers Bulletin No. 856, which deals witli insects and fungusdiseases affecting crops, with remedies or preventive measures against pamphlet will be sent free to any ad
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