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Show xx-s-x-:-xx-:-ix.:-x-:.;s. 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 leaves. The extraordinary extraor-dinary tiling' about them is that although al-though they can exist for generations without wings, when the need arises they can grow them in a night The aphids are sap-suckers. They settle down, drive their beaks into the bark until they reach the sap. then sit contentedly con-tentedly drinking (heir fill. They are so contcnied. 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 birth to their young, who having eyes and legs, run about quite actively muil they fnd the sap si reams. The processes are repeated until the plant harbors so many of these tiny creatures that they drink I a'' I'S sap. and the plant dies. The aphnls. having to seek new soutces of food, produce a generation of aphids will) wings. These they unfurl and then fly to a live plant-London Tit-Lns. |