LIVING WEATHER GUIDES.
An old notion that the actions of certain living' creatures may indicate the coming weather seems to be not wholly unfounded.- Professor A. L. Clements, a French entomologist, has been collecting evidence to the point, and finds that tree-toads and various insects have been authoritatively credited with showing great sensitiveness to changes of temperature, humidity, air pressure, and possibly atmospheric electricity. The geotrupes, a genus including the dung beetle, are active on the coming of fine weather, and quiet when a storm is coming, even when no visible sign appears. Bees and spiders, as has often been observed, keep at home when a storm is coming, the latter sometimes preparing ' their webs for resisting wind. .
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7377, 1 February 1902, Page 4 (Supplement)
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118LIVING WEATHER GUIDES. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7377, 1 February 1902, Page 4 (Supplement)
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