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Show strength Jf aa ordinary red ant. tie a thread1 around its waist aad allow it to grapple, with Its laws tha hairs of a paint bruah. la thla way I found that aa ant can lift (with Ita Jaws) its tlma Ita own weight, aa waa shown In ArticleT.1. For a man, weighing 174 peunrta. to perform the a me feat, ha would have to raise JU,7s pounds with bis teeth. Many Insects have a "homing Instinct'7 In-stinct'7 so remarkable that entomologists ento-mologists suapecj tjiey may possess what has baea caned a "muscular memory" a phyaical condition which brings them back home somewhat aa a boomerang returns to th hand of tha thrower. Of all tha malee Iff a beehlr onfv n rer mates th . one which takea the young queen during her nuptial flight. Tha atory is beautifully beau-tifully told by Thomeon: "The princes appears from the shelter of the royal nursery and tha worker brush her an I clean her and caresa her.' Impelled hy eome atrange Inatlnct. she Immediately aeeka tha other cradle, tears ope tha cells and relentlessly stings ner aletera, her poaalbla rivals, to desth!. A few dara later, oa a bright and sunny day . aha leave i tha hfve for ter nuptial flight. e e somewhere In tha solitude of 1 . T. . tha bin ths Btrongeat mala ovar-takea ovar-takea her and meeta love and death In tha aama Inatant, and th brld-wl brld-wl low returns to ths hive" Later n all th remaining male, being ato-aothlag dronea. are mea-aaored mea-aaored -toy the eterUe female which alone are worker. - . Fireside Science , By RsuasbrrM Sutton ' Oepyrkrht. lsn N. T. Iisslaf WerM. rrasa -aaUaBlaa Cs. wUKPCst TallgOB ABUt'T ISSBJOT. Insects ar net covered with ekln v sheila bat with chit In. k horny subatanca secreted by their bodlea. Lik om klal of mem mala, they have., aoqulrad eoloringe which blend Into the sheen of tn vegetation vegeta-tion upon which they feed. One haa to look closely to find th grea caterpillar or the njvth among green leavea. Inaecta do not breathe through their mouth, but through airtubee (Infolding of their chitlnous coatl. and tha air Is brought In end sx relied by expanding and conlracl-ng-the body. The rings of their ancestral wo rm e survlv as , K-menta K-menta I their bodlea. Inaecta feel through antennae, called "feelers." Adults hav compound com-pound syea eyes with many fixe! faceta ao they see In all dtreettone without moving either the head or tha aye aa a whole. The houae fly has over 400 faceta; instead of easing eas-ing one Image It aeas many Ants have compound ayes, but aee poorly; poor-ly; they depend largely upon tha senea of feeling, which la Incomprehensibly Incom-prehensibly acuta. Still more acute. la most Inaecta, Is tha aanae of smell, as waa demonstrated lv Fabre. In a region where emperor moths were rare ha placed a female fe-male under a glees and the. radiations radia-tions from her body drew hunlreds of mslas from ths woods during th night. It la believed that Inaecta hear Bounds to ubtl for humaa detection. detec-tion. We know now that tha air haa been filled with sound, el nee tha beginning et Malory, whtch paaaed by ua unheard until radio apparatus was Invented t change tha wav length ao to Impreaa human eara. Sounds, which we du not hear even with the rallo may ha heard by Insects at leat. B-tomologlsta B-tomologlsta Judg so es th beats of Inaes behavior. All Insects know snough to lav" thalr ease In eubetatwee upon whtch the larvae, when hatched, may feed. Tha tumblebug. which Is not a bug. but a beetle, makea a ball of atabie manure around It. ease. Working together, the male and female roll the ball t the hole preoared for It. tha female rulllns and tha male pushing. The male cannot pull; unlike his mate, hia fe-reiesa do not end In hooka When the esaa hatch th larvae fed tnsmseivsa surrounded sur-rounded br ri. h oraanla food. Ths house flv flaps Its wings ttS times a second; a wasp, 114 tlmea, S b'l'terflv. nine tlmea Tai.or ants form a living chain acr-.s espe by holilng on to one I rofers eal.t, over hlch the ro. oay passes, if you wis to Uat toe |
