Word: insectes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curious to know on what authority TIME has discovered an "insect-line" at 2,500 feet above sea level. I have been plagued with the ordinary house fly in South America at altitudes above 12,000 feet, when there were horses to furnish the manure in which the flies could breed. I am now located 1,700 feet above TIME s "insect-line" and only wish it were as effective in Arizona as in one spot in South Dakota. I say "one spot," advisedly, because when I was in the Black Hills at Lead, I can assure you the existence...
...with difficulty that I restrain myself from coupling the hyphenated name of this British "Dowse" with that of a certain unmentionable insect...
...From his experiments, Dr. Reed found that the domestic mosquito (stegomyia fasciata) is the lone carrier of the yellow fever germ. The virus of the fever is a parasite that requires an alternate passage through a vertebrate and an insect host...
...Each insect flings off his repression...
...European fly taken to New England to fight two insect pests had proved itself the enemy of 92 other insects...