. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. The Cows that Ants Milk 21 always settling in a cheese, all ready-made food for them, without the trouble or exertion of hunting. Creatures which reproduce at such a rate, how- ever, invariably pay the penalty for their rapid increase by an equally rapid and enormous death- rate ; were it otherwise, the offspring of a single pair of codfish (with their million eggs) would soon turn the sea into one solid mass of cod ; while the. !',»«W*,<« /jmf''' t^' m NO. 8.—COMIC ENEMY WHO POSES AS OLD-CLOTHES MAN. descendants of a
. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. The Cows that Ants Milk 21 always settling in a cheese, all ready-made food for them, without the trouble or exertion of hunting. Creatures which reproduce at such a rate, how- ever, invariably pay the penalty for their rapid increase by an equally rapid and enormous death- rate ; were it otherwise, the offspring of a single pair of codfish (with their million eggs) would soon turn the sea into one solid mass of cod ; while the. !',»«W*,<« /jmf''' t^' m NO. 8.—COMIC ENEMY WHO POSES AS OLD-CLOTHES MAN. descendants of a single viviparous aphis would cover the earth with a ten feet thick layer of teeming green-flies. However, Nature has remedies in store for them. Storms of rain and hail kill myriads of aphides ; sudden changes of weather wilt them and nip them up ; innumerable enemies make an honest livelihood out of them. Another of these ubiqui- tous foes is graphically represented in No, 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. New York : Doubleday & McClure
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