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Stupid Wolf. Among the arachnids which do not make webs are the "wolf spiders" or hunters, which live in little parapets like watchtowers, from which they leap forth and run down their prey by sheer speed. This group includes the stupid Lycosa, which, when deprived of her cocoon containing young, will accept a cork ball of the same shape and fondle it tenderly. There is also the jumping spider, which stalks her prey like a cat, and pounces when in range. The jumping spider has the best eyesight of all arachnids, with four of her eight eyes on the flattened...
...pages of English, Thorndike had picked out the 10,000 words most frequently used. His Teacher's Word Book revolutionized the writing of English textbooks for children and foreigners. In one book for Spaniards, Thorndike and Lorge found, the author had included such rarities as caterpillar, snail, and cocoon in Lesson Five. In a text for Italians, wrench, bellows, tongs, and plumbline appeared on Page 10. One textbook started out waving the word...
Down the ball from the mice and monkeys is a room full of moth pupas, with their brains cut out. The pupa is the animal inside a cocoon; and Assistant Professor Carroll M. Williams has found that it will live indefinitely but not grow when its brain is removed. He has kept pupas for months in animated suspension and then put their brains back, and they started growing where they left...
...larval period (which lasts through the winter) and in spring when the pupa has emerged from the cocoon, no urinary wastes are excreted. Instead, embryonic mud daubers produce uric acid pellets which are stored in an organ called the "fat body." Only after the adult wasp has started to eat its way out of its mud cell are the uric acid pellets excreted...
...Cocoon. Two more men entered the case. Both had been accused by Chambers as having given him papers from Government offices. One of them was William Ward Pigman, former employee of the Bureau of Standards, now a chemist with the Institute of Paper Chemistry at Appleton, Wis. He was questioned only by the grand jury; in a public statement he denied the charge...