Word: aphid
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Nature had made it a big aphid year...
Lack of know-how, lack of labor, and a virus carried from plant to plant by an aphid left U.S. growers four or five years away from capturing a $20,000,000-a-year business. Imports of bulbs dropped off even before Pearl Harbor. Reason: the Japanese were eating the vitamin-rich bulbs, as they had done centuries before the West turned their flowers into symbols of the resurrection of the Prince of Peace...
Strangest of Mr. Teale's beasts: the aphid (plant louse), which reproduces by parthenogenesis (without mating), gives birth to males only in autumn, is so prolific that if all descendants of one aphid could possibly survive throughout a summer, their mass weight would be 822,000,000 tons. Most intelligent insect: the ant, though the wasp and bee run it a close second. Most surprising insect: the dragon fly, which is so fond of live meat it will even eat parts of itself, starting at the tail and eating toward its mouth...
...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "Observations on a Gall Aphid (Aphis atriplicis L.)." Mr. Paul Hayhurst. Zoological Laboratory, 4th floor, Room...
...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "Observations on a Gall-Aphid (Aphis atriplicis L)." Mr. Paul Hayhurst. Zoological Laboratory, 4th floor, Room...