. St. Nicholas [serial]. he most unfavorable situations. On Laysan,for example, a low sandy atoll, the love-birdssought out those portions of the island whereold boulders of phosphate rock had been tum-bled together, and herewe found the eggsperched on the tops ofjagged chunks, and inany position on the sideswhere gravity did notactually assert the climax wascapped when we foundthe little fellows usingthe bare limbs of lowbushes for nesting watched the mother stand over the eggshown in the illustration with great confidence,and when she flew away the egg was not in theleast
. St. Nicholas [serial]. he most unfavorable situations. On Laysan,for example, a low sandy atoll, the love-birdssought out those portions of the island whereold boulders of phosphate rock had been tum-bled together, and herewe found the eggsperched on the tops ofjagged chunks, and inany position on the sideswhere gravity did notactually assert the climax wascapped when we foundthe little fellows usingthe bare limbs of lowbushes for nesting watched the mother stand over the eggshown in the illustration with great confidence,and when she flew away the egg was not in theleast jarred. Walter K. Fisher. Stanford University, California. PLANT TRAP FOR INSECTS. Animals get their food from plants—eitherdirectly by eating the plant itself or by eatingsome other animal or the product of an animalthat has been a vegetarian. Most plants draw their food from the airthrough the leaves, or from the soil throughtheir roots. But there are some that are notsatisfied with this simple inorganic food ; they. THE SUNDEW. Showing the arrangement of the tentacle-bearing leavesat the base of the flower stem. want something richer. Among themost wonderful are those that feedupon insects. In the bogs of oursandy woods and in other parts ofthe world is a small plant of thiskind, known as the sundew. Nearthe ground it has a rosette of leaves onslender stalks, those of some species beingroundish, of others long, slender, and almostthread-like. From this rosette rises a deli-cate stem bearing near the top a number ofwhite flowers that open one by one whenthe sun shines on them. When an insect alights upon a sundewleaf, he is caught and held fast by a stickymaterial. Then slender arms or tentacleson the edge of the leaf bend over the spotwhere the little insect is struggling. Afluid is poured out from glands at the tipsof the tentacles, and the soft parts of theinsect are in a short time actually the tiny arms open, and the leaf isthen ready for anothermeal. S
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