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Show COLOR AND BUGS Did. you ever wionder if insects ever cared about the finer things in life, such as color? Other countries have made a study of color and insects and we learn from their research. Canadian soldiers, otv June bugs, will swarm around white bulbs but not colored ones. Moths prefer the white light, too. Tests were made where they found one fly on blue paper where 18 gathered on the clear green. A fly likes rose better than red or yellow. Certain French clinics and hospitals have painted their walls blue to repel flies. In Denmark they have erected slaughter-houses and factories with blue interiors. in-teriors. An Englishman painted the walls and ceiling of his kitchen a powder blue to free his house of the pests. This is an idea if housewives care to follow it. n |