Word: lice
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...Oakdale, Calif., Hans Clemensen, pestered by lice no exterminator could kill, burned down his lousy house, moved into his garage...
...interior reaches. Unknowingly he takes most of them in with other foods. They, more knowing, accept no substitutes: while they have him they eat him, and him alone. Taken together, these constitute man's interior environment. But there are others who attack from the outside. Mosquitoes, crab-lice, bedbugs, fleas help to make life what it is. If hitherto you have found your acquaintances uninteresting, this entertaining account of their pests & parasites will help you to see more in them. And if you yourself happen to harbor some of the deadlier species, Dr. Causey's professional attitude will...
...cold-storage warehouse last Autumn by a force of men under Commissioner Wheeler, who scoured the countryside near El Portal, Calif. Some 8.000,000 bugs had been netted and stored. The reason: A ladybug is capable of eating in a season several thousand of the Aphis (green plant lice) which annually menace vineyards, peach and apricot orchards, and truck gardens in Mercer County...
Stealthily, while street lights winked, a group of men approached the Central Po lice Station. Their leader carried a large sabre without scabbard, wore a soiled white linen suit, no hat, brilliant yellow shoes. It was a revolution...
...divide ants into eight series, have listed 6,000 species. Says Maeterlinck: all the higher species have a communistic unselfishness inconceivable to Man, a consequent social discipline superior to any human government. Some ants have organized armies, wage offensive wars; some own slaves; some keep herds of "cattle" (plant lice); some cultivate mushrooms. For non-carnivorous ants (the great majority) the greatest pleasure in life seems to be disgorging for others the food they have laboriously ac cumulated: "For her [the ant] regurgitation must be an act as delightful as is for us the degustation of the choicest meats...