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When DDT was first sprayed on large areas to kill insect pests, some naturalists issued grisly warnings that the poison would "upset the balance of nature" causing all sorts of unpredictable havoc. It was better, they argued, to pass up DDT and let natural balances rule the swamps and forests...
...other line of Williams research also deals with insects, and the unexplained mystery of how they fly. Men can contract their muscles only 10 times a second, but some insect wings hit frequencies of 1000. Biologists have never understood how they do it and in his attempts to find out Williams has built such weird instruments as a machine that measures the horsepower output of a fruitfly...
...Good Old Insect Control. As for jobs, merchandising is still top choice (40%). The seniors do not seem to mind selling, though they prefer a salary to a commission. They dislike the high pressure of the insurance salesman's life (only 5% wanted to go into it) and almost none of them care for investment banking. But there is one rather new field that seems to be phenomenally popular: the field of "personnel." Seniors never know quite why the field appeals to them. They almost invariably say "Because I like people...
...49ers, raised on the great depression and World War II, and conscious of their late start in college, were vocation-minded. They had majored in such subjects as radio journalism, labor relations, business management, insect control and ceramic engineering. Only 10% had majored in one of the humanities...
Tidy Habits. From Crumple-Wing and her kin, Shafer learned some inside details of the mud dauber's life cycle. One of the most striking was the insect's built-in sanitary facilities. Each egg is laid in a separate mud cell, along with perhaps a dozen spiders which have been paralyzed by the mother wasp's sting. After the larva hatches from the egg, it begins to eat the spiders...