Word: proboscises
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Go to the Ant. The genus Harpagomyia preys on ants. The mosquito alights in front of an ant and holds it tightly with its forelegs. After a while the ant opens its mouth. The mosquito inserts its proboscis and sucks up food which the ant squeezes from its stomach. Both...
This year some 30,000 bushels of the new Redman seed will be ready for planting next spring. So too, probably, will seed for another new strain, Rescue wheat, on which the destructive wheatstem sawfly (annual damage: $20,000,000) blunts its proboscis in vain. This year, as the E.F.S...
To Miss Josephine Piccolo, a Brooklyn textile inspector, he wrote: "My dear Dago: (If I am mistaken in this please correct me) ... Will you please keep your dirty proboscis out of the other 47 states, especially the dear old State of Mississippi?"
Over at the Student's Club, another one of the very popular dances in honor of our sisters under the braid from Radcliffe saw a full and gay house. The usual group of lads from the Mid-Off, School were there, supplemented by others of their lupine ilk. Of interest...
The tsetse looks something like an ordinary housefly, but has the sharp proboscis and the bloodthirsty habits of a mosquito. When an infected tsetse bites a man, it injects into his bloodstream protozoa known as trypanosomes, which-for the tsetse is omnivampiverous-it may have picked up from the blood...