Show 57 52 52 I Th The insects Have N Now nv Developed Into th the Mo Most t tJ J Powerful r Rival of Man Manu ManBy I c V t. t u 1 By DR L. L 0 O. HOWARD Am Advancement of Science I 45 4 5 t 88 j a jhc articulates have e in the course of the thc ages been modified and perfected per per- perfected 1 f in their structure and in their biology until th their ir many appendages appendage have ha become perfect tools adapted in the most complete way way to to the needs of th the species until their power of existing and of multiplying enormously under th the most extraordinary variety c of conditions of subsisting fully y upon pon an e. e extraordinary Briet variety of food has become so perfected perfected- and their instincts have become so developed that the culminating type t the e i fJ indicts indicts' lias has be become beconi on e h P. P ot art powerful rival ri of the culminating vertebrate I type tp man JNo Nov Now r this is not recognized to the thc full by people in general it general it is not I realized cd by the biologists themselves We appreciate the fact that agriculture i ture tun suffers enormously since insects need our eur ur farm products and compel us to share with them v We Wye e are rc just beginning to that directly and indirectly insects cause a a- tremendous loss of human life through the diseases dt Cases that the I they carry But Hut apar apart t from these these- b two o generalizations w we c do do rot not rea realize ize that thai m. m I sare re working against us in In a host of ways sometimes obviously morn Nauru 5 often in unseen ways was and that an nn enormous fight is on our our hands handa I 1 I |