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...termite is a pallid, squashy little bug which would be of no importance whatever were it not for its depraved appetite. It likes to eat wood. That taste makes it immensely important to building owners in tropical and warm temperate regions. Termites do yearly damage estimated at $29,000,000 to farm buildings in the South. Seven years ago they began to alarm California. Last week Entomologist George Ethelbert Sanders of the American Museum of Natural History sent a shiver through New York City by waking it to the fact that for the first time it is seriously infested with...
...glant waterbug, or "electric light bug," as it is designated in Biological treatises, received a warm welcome at the Biology Building although no one was able to account for the long absence of the once familiar insect. Today, the bug is an interesting relic for shortly after its appearance it was sacrificed for the sake of science. It may be viewed in the bedroom of the Freshman where it is being preserved for future generations...
Last week, after ten days' study and reflection, Justice Nicholas M. Pette brought in a twelve-page decision. Ruled he: "While the cricket is technically an insect and a bug, it would appear from a study of his life that, instead of being obnoxious, he is an intellectual little fellow, with certain attainments of refinement and an indefatigable musician par excellence...
...last storm-tossed shower was at Boston in 1871. Only 20 recorded times in the past 40 years has the bird been found inland. Looking somewhat like a dove-sized penguin, the little auk is helpless on land. It feeds chiefly on a type of water bug found only at sea, needs the impetus of a wave to get into the air. Of nearly 100 picked up in New York's metropolitan area last week, only four survived...
...Associated Press discovered that Mississippi has places named Hot Coffee, Whynot and O. K.; Florida has Sonny Boy, Two Egg, Coon and Sisters Welcome; North Carolina has Hog Quarter, Maiden and Red Bug; Virginia has Ego, All, Swallow Well and Topnot; Arkansas has Smackover, Self Sodom, Greasy Corners and Hog Scald; Louisiana has Blank, Wham and Uncle Sam; Georgia has Ty Ty, Crisp, Bacon and New York...