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...common clothes moth, which goes under the full-dress name of Tineola bisselliella Hummel, is an oyster-colored insect with a wingspread of about ½ in. The larvae look like chestnut worms, eat furs, feathers and wool, spin translucent tubes in which they spend most of their time. They also spin webs on their feeding grounds, and, finally, cocoons from which the moths emerge. They may be inactivated by naphthalene in flakes or moth balls, sunlight, air, cedar chests, mothproof paper bags, temperatures below 40°. Under the Federal Insecticide Act it is a crime to sell (in interstate commerce...
...well-cared-for grounds of the British Embassy in Washington one day last week a gardener noticed a great number of odd insects among the flowers and shrubs. He had never seen any creatures like these in England. They were a dingy brownish black, with spiny forelegs and large, staring eyes. Their legs were orange and their wings, which spread three inches when open, bore dark markings resembling the letter "W." The gardener took news of his discovery to plump, grey-haired Lady Lindsay, wife of moose-tall Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay. Lady Lindsay suggested telephoning to the Department...
...dubious beginnings into tragic romance, a moral tale to melt a worldling. Francis Radnor, a "Sir" and a gentleman, but not as aristocratic as he looked, had enough money for his wants. His wants were to float about the world, now as a well-connected butterfly, now as an insect with a taste for carrion. In short, Sir Francis was a double-lifer...
...three scholars of different countries dug up the Mendelian laws almost simultaneously, and the modern science of heredity got under way with a bang. Thomas Hunt Morgan made the tough, quick-breeding fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, the most famed insect in the scientific world, correlated hundreds of Mendelian characters with invisible transmitting agents called genes, strung out along the germ-cell chromosomes. It became apparent that Mendel's peas were priceless landmarks in the history of biological science...
...engraving in particular illustrates this devotion to realistic detail. Objects of the least significance to the central theme pop up in odd corners of the picture, and a small insect placed near the feet of the Virgin for no apparent reason and drawn with biological accuracy has caused this picture to be known as "The Holy Family with Grasshopper...