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Show Sleepless and Voracious I-arve. Professor Lintner, New York's state entomologist, is of the opinion that the larvsB stage of many species of insects is one of sleepless activity, the grub feeding incessantly from the "moment of its birth. " He says that it is doubtful doubt-ful if some species ever sleep or take a moment's rest The voraciousness and rapid growth of these creatures may be better understood by making a statement of two facts: A certain flesh feeding larvaa which simply means the infant state of a carrion beetle, whose scientific name would be of no particular interest to readers of The .Republic will consume con-sume in 24 hours 200 times his own weight, a parallel to which in the human hu-man race would be an infant consuming consum-ing f,50O pounds of nutriment on the first day of its existence 1 There are vegetable veg-etable feeders caterpillars which, during their progress to maturity, increase in-crease in 6ize 10,000 times during the first 30 days of their lives. To equal this remarkable growth a mature man would weigh scarcely less than 50 tons I St. Louis Republic |