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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIII, Issue 13712, 1 April 1905, Page 7

The sciaras, of the genus tiplus, tiny, wormlike creatures which are found in the forests, of Norway and Hungary during tho month of July or early in August, gather in huge numbers preparatory to migrating in search of food or for a change of conditions. When setting out on this journey, they stick themselves together by means of some glutinous matter, and form a huge ser-pent-like mass, often reaching between forty and fifty feet, and several inches in. thickness. As tho sciara is only on an average about three-thirty seconds of an inch in length, with no appreciable breadth whatever, the number required to form a continuous line the size shove mentioned is incalculable.