Jumping Cocoons.
Mil'j.v visitors to the South-Wes- '' hi States and Mexico have amused tin-in, selves by watching the queer I Miotifxi.s ot "jumping 'beans," the ! sml v * t ' ss,,ls > "f a. plant, each of illicit contains the pupa of ail insect u hose spasmodic movements cause t,u * lH ' a " t() J">P and roll about. -Mole lemarkable are fcho "jumping cocoons," found i„ South Africa. I lie cocoon is formed by the mother insect, and is very hard. The pupa, when ready to emerge, must cut its way out. The front of its head has a sharp, chisel-like edge, and bv di iving this against the inside of the shell it gradually makes a hole. The violent motions of the pupa within cause the, cocoon to leap so that ono lias been seen to spring out of a small glass tumbler.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 August 1912, Page 4
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