INSECTS THAT MAKE RAIN

Evening Star, Issue 17958, 3 May 1922, Page 6

INSECTS THAT MAKE RAIN

I f., v|! |i-v ;l'M I. i vingrloi’n, ‘be «■ i v ,:o: ; eV; a ■ "''V." tr f e .” j down imm. the , ; f ip, ii'i:-- e. ,il. buc tule of a quart i n ‘ i.o iouao Ho d’d not at that iinl , 0:,,v, it.' loin* 01 ibo phenomenon 5 ■;,,L who \'ol3 anso a (i)r oi..,rn, discovered that the su-caiTd run m-is tropica! regions Wmany iii-i'u;'fni fnini :os, and that ,1„. II it <il vegolahlo origin at ,n i.uL was the work of no insect. M'.rsl ■ artl'.-iKMJ carnation familiar with Hie little green uiKuct with bright railed a frog hooper or ciikoo .-p-.i. it is,_ in tact, a kind of aphis, cod has developed- a rewerkahiu protective adaptation in tho lunniilivii of tho "1 pit." Tills is the sap ' oi liji* [jiniii, u;> uy tiui in- ; (ioct, viiio bucks It lip through a. long, 1 fharn mouth-organ so greedily that the Biirpbis fiii/.os .in 0g 11 ins delicate skin. ; r l his uvcrhoiviiio iip mil is t.icn wrought I into a froth by the creature's iafhing 1 ” laii,” which inject a. bubble of air in *li 0: nyi ii'i: -.1 ; . -,v 1; Mi j ; "do 0j 1 i iqTl’.n.' ; uiiuily surrounds ilje awed's body arid acts ;us a’ veil. This is precisely what goes |on in the case the .Tain trees- Tne in- : sect:, of 1 r.c 1-0p:o:il countries lire also. or I the ash is order, hut much huger and l proi bn-hly more numerous, .so that their aij tack upon a ivee causes tho strange— and 1 ■ soiiuilin.-cs ai-turllv l-cr.-eilcenl —resint liui.'-vii ,;s "r-'i’.’i." On- tree which is roovciidiv .ought ’’l ■is ciJie.l Tlyclua goinj.'i ilor 11 rooto. ’' ; and it liaa been estimated that- » Maa.li group of theso would produce severe! "aii-cu.s oi liquid*in a night.— 1 Everyday dcicnce.’