Show EVER HEAR BUR BUG V ilk lit SINGING in 10 TO MATE Love Making in Bug Fashion Says Learned Professor FOPS AMONG THEM TOO Conventionally Woo Much the Same as Human Beings New ew York Sept IS When a man is la head over heel heels In III love kwe when he Is I torn tornby rn by Jealousy when wilen hatred of oC a rival possesses po seas him he Ite often otten becomes become a abug bag bug to use an expression rather slangy Stilt nt It Is III I surprising that when an insect ln ct Is III filled with love jealousy or hate It becomes more ot of a bug than ever eer Prof Proto William M 31 Wheeler ot of the Bussey BUlley Institute Harvard university ha haa baa been beeR deeply de ply interested In the th question que Hoa Have Insects In an emotional life Ufe Professor Wheeler has ha boon carefully studying grasshoppers crick crickets ets eta scorpions butterflies and aad many man other Insects lie He declare declares there are strong indications Indication that all of Dt them feel Jealousy loUl lY hate bate and love lote and aUl that they display physical courage at exact exactly ly 1 the proper moment Besides some of ot these thee small creatures are love malt mak makers malters ers era as all expert as a nobleman with an anold anold anaid old aid title and without wi t a penny who woo wee a daughter It U le a mistake to think that only the higher animals have definite meth methods methods otis of DC love making said Mid Professor Prore sor Wheeler today The fact Is III that scores cores of ot insects In have really complicated ed methods of Df attracting mates Some of DC these methods are the convention conventionalities and traditions of insect court courtship courtship courtshIp ship Just as among human beings nearly all alt Insects seek to attract mates mate either by their brilliant colors and good looks or by some weird accomplishment On the other hand baRd the female in every ever species of ot insect iB life affects affect a mailer maJ ter of or great coyness coynes Professor Wheeler heeler then described the method of the scorpion beau to intro introduce dues duce himself to a lady scorpion The rhe male scorpion having gained the attention of Dt the tin female advances advance to toward toward ward her with a sort of sidewise hesi heal hesitating tating walk As All A they approach the walk Mows to tD a very 13 deliberate ad advance advance vance At a little distance they halt and gaze intensely into each others eyes What bat beautiful eyes you OU have says sa the human to the object of his attee affection affection tion To return to the scorpion Then still sUII seeming to gaze Intently I at each other othor they the raise themselves vertically and hold tItle this position for tor or several minutes mInute After this thin introduction tion the scorpions take a sort ort of promenade promenade nade one of the most serious erious features of the lovemaking program Professor heeler Wheeler describes the woo wooing wooIng wooing ing of some species of Dr spiders The male having selected his hi bride advances to her gazes at her for a moment and then begins a weird dance He leaps Into Int the air all balances him himself hImself self first on his fore tore and lind then titan on his rear legs and goes through a series of ot antics all an of which the female regards with great complacency At the end of Dt the dane dance dan e the spider approaches the female and ami claims her as his bride Like a II lovesick lovelick swain who twangs twang his hla guitar beneath ben her gallery guner a cricket or a grasshopper serenades his hU lady ladylove love And a cricket fights tights for tor her duels with his rival before her eyes ees Said the professor Nearly always these duels are fought In the presence of ot the desired dired one and andIn andIn In true medieval fashion The maiden concealed con near by b watches the conflict with great Interest until the victor con on quem clue his rival and carries her off oft as his mate |