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Show Know The Weather1? Have you ever noticed the effect of temperature on animals anim-als and insects outside your house? Certain patterns are followed faithfully by these creatures. BIRDS, OF course, start south when the temperature begins to drop. How they know just when to leave is a good question, and whether they know a winter will be severe se-vere or mild one cannot say. There are many who think they do. Other creatures follow a definite de-finite pattern. Bees, for example, exam-ple, are vicious at less than 50 degrees and ants wi , home at a slightly hich ' perature. The calls I Katydid can be translaj a temperature readin pending upon the lencth; i" Call. " ; IT'S BELIEVED ftc field cricket's chirp wj 1,1 you a temperature reL; and some wear by thisU la. At 70 degrees the -chirps 129 times a minug1 the number of chirpsdec as the temperature dro'.'" So nature has manj concerning the weatha |