Show FLEAS HAVE OTHER FLEAS TO BITE EM Massachusetts state slate is giving gi three hundred thousand dollars for the fight lug ing of the gypsy and the moths These pests have been awfully awfully awfully aw aw- aw- aw fully destructive to the trees and crops of the Old Bay flay state and all aU good Y Yankees indorse the rather generous appropriation from the treasury of the commonwealth They love lovo money and hate bate to spend it but they do not want the bugs to destroy y their or or- I and their growing grain what grain what grain they grow in Massachusetts l So hating the parasite they have developed another parasite to eat the eaters of or trees and waving wa grain The state superintendent for tor the tile destruction destruction tion of Insect pests has liberated eighty thousand moths that act as policemen for fat tho the crop eating insects And An in another week they will liberate lib lIb- lib lib- crate erate thousands more The parasites so far selected work against tho tIme moths in four distinct wa ways s The Tho large beetles as aswell aswell aswell well as two other species closely allied allied al al- al lied to them climb trees seize the caterpillar and never no let go until they have havo devoured dc the insect The Tho flies files la lay their eggs upon the outer skin of tho the caterpillar usually usual close to the tho head The Tho larvae lanne that hatch penetrate the tile skin of tho the caterpillar and feed upon its Intestines Intestines intestines Intes Intes- tines and there is another mother parasite I a n minute midge that drills into the eggs of the caterpillar and lays Itse its e eggs TS inside The larvae lar of the parasite parasite para para- site feed upon tho contents of the caterpillars caterpillar's eg eggs s until ready to eme emerge e. e Some Somo of oC these flies fifes also enter enter enter en en- ter the tho nests or winter webs of the moths and there operate upon the hibernating caterpillars durIng during dur dur- ing lag the winter mouths Scientists say there is every reason to believe belie that in time these parasites parasites parasites para para- sites will accomplish the practical suppression of the gypsy gyps moth In America as ns they have e in Europe The present experiment is regarded as os the most important that has bas been tried in the war against the gypsy moth It is rather an interesting ure tire It shows just how scientific Massachusetts has become Nobody there thero goes looking for the insect pests They just telephone tho the state l killer and he the pest ers destroyers on And there Is an au end of the tho trouble This would be a a. very err funny funn world If Massachusetts could not outplay the bugs that eat the Massachusetts l trees And all tho the r rest st of the country countr Is watching the tIme New England experiment experiment expert expert- ment meat and waiting for tor results |