Show PLAGUED BY INSECT PESTS explorers in subtropical south amer alep lea ica tell of hardships encountered on their journeys though nearly every prospect pleases other things as well as men are vile in subtropical south america according to a lecture delivered recently before the royal geographical society in london by lieutenant edwards the insect and other pests are unspeakably terrible the lecturer who conducted a frontier exploration on the bolivia brazil boundary last year describes the forests as being well nigh impassable their tate rats ot of progress was 15 miles in 35 days through those tangled fields the soil ot of the country lie he s said aid was wonderfully fertile and with very little littie toll toil returned a harvest out of 0 all proportion in the forest and on the smaller rivers life was made almost unbearable by insect pests ants were met with everywhere they swarmed over ones person in hundreds and most of them bit most savagely there was one kind of ored red ant called which lived in trees named pa losantos hollowed out by themselves whose bite was like a touch with a red hot iron it if a person inadvertently touched or leant up against one of these pa losantos the ants swarmed out upon him instantly and his life for hours afterward was a long drawn out misery |