Insects Threaten Man.
The chief of the United States Bureau of Entomology declares that human beings and insects face a death grapple for mastery of the earth, with the odds favouring the insects- “ Human beings, if they are to continue to exist," he says, “must first gain mastery over insects, which, in the United States alone, continually nullify the labour of 1.000,000 men. Insects are letter equipped to occupy the earth than are human beings, having been on the earth for 50.000,000 years, while the human race is only 500,000 years old."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18009, 20 November 1926, Page 10
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