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Show n-:-x-:-x-M-M-:-x-:x-:-x-M-:-x-:-x-:-x-M-M-:-x-:-x-:-x-:-r-:-x-:-z-M-:.z-M-M-M-:.xT Nature Has Provided for Needs of Aphids Aphids are the tiny Insects that live on the tips of tender plants and the under side of loaves. The extraor dinary thing about them is that although al-though they can exist for generations without wings, when the need arises they1 can grow them In a night. The aphids are sap-suckers. They settle down, drive their beaks Into the bark until they reach the snp. then sit contentedly con-tentedly drinking their fill. They are so contented, in fact, that they often s their skins, casting off legs and eyes, and cling there blind and helpless. help-less. Clinging thus, the helpless moth ers give birlh to their young, who having eyes and legs, run about quite actively until they find the sap streams. The processes are repeated until the plant harbors so many of these tiny creatures that they drink all its sap, and the plant dies. The aphids, having to seek new soutces of food, produce a generation of aphids with wings. These they unfurl and then fly to a live plant. London Tit-Bits. |