TELEPATHY AMONG INSECTS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9999, 25 May 1895, Page 5

TELEPATHY AMONG INSECTS.

Can it be that bugs are endowed with a wonderful sixth sense ? Professor 0. V. Kiloy thinks he baa discovered satisfactory evidence of telepathy among insects — that ia to say, a sixth sense, by which they are able to comraunioato ideas from one to another at groat distancos, The power, aa illustrated id the aase about to be mentioned, evidently depends not upon sight or smell or hearing. The faot that man la able to transmit sound by telegraph almost instantaneously round the globe may suggest something of this subtle power, even though it furnishes no explanation thereof. Onoe upon a time Professor lliloy had two ailanthus treea in his front yard. They suggested to him the idea of obtaining from Japan some eggs ,

of the ailanthus Bilkworm. He got a few nnd hatohed them, rearing the larvro and watobing anxiously for the appearance of the Brit moths from the coooon. He pat one of the moths la a little wicker cage and hung it np out of doors on one of the ailanthus trees. This was a female moth. On the aame evening he took a male moth to a ceme* tery a mile and a half away and let him loose, having previously tied a Bilk thread around tho base of his abdomen to seoure subsequent identification. Professor Riley's purpose in this per. formance was to find out if the young ] male and the female tnoth3 would come together for the purpose of mating, they being in all probability the only insects of their species within a distance of hundreds of miles, excepting only the others possessed by Professor Riley himself. This power of locating eaoh otner had previously been remarked In these Insects. In this case, sure enough, the mile was found with the captive female the next morning. The lntter had been able to attract the former from a distance of a mile and a half.