Strength of Insects.
A French investigator, who has a taste for the curious in science, has recently made a feries of experiment? to test the strength of insects as compared with the strength, of other creatures. He finds that, in proportion to its size, a bee can pull thirty times as much weight as a horse.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1806, 2 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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56Strength of Insects. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1806, 2 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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