Mel Lincoln Journal (undated)

or streams; they lay their eggs in the water and the young when hatched breath by gills, and feed on young mousquitoes etc. To catch these wigglers they are provided with a large lower lip, which they extend and use as a drip net.

In the adult form they feed largely [enl] and are therefore both in the larva and the adult stages, very benefficial. They do not sting; the organ at the end of theabdomen which is thought by many to be stinger is merely an [oveaporter].

Hemiptera (Half-winged). The order is so called because some of its members have the outer half of the wing transparent so that they appear to have but half a wing this is the order containing the real bugs and the term bugs should not be applied to other insects. Among the common forms are the Boxelder bugs, squash bugs, lices of plant life, small insects and many others.

Diptera (Two winged). This order is so named because many of them appear to have but two wings, the second pair of wings being represented by little rudimentary wings whose function seems to be mainly for balancing the order includes the gnats, misquitos, fleas, house flys, horse flys and many others. The misquitos deposit their eggs in stagnant water, the young when hatched are known as wigglers, all misquitos in a pond may be killed by pouring a little oil on the surface. Misquitos are dangerous in that they carry many dreaded diseases, the female misquitos are the injurious ones, it is they that suck blood, the male misquitos

suck sap from plants.

The house fly deposits its eggs in mannure heaps and other filth; for this reason cities pass ordinances compelling the keepers of horses and cows to provide themselves iwth covered reseptiles into which to throw mannure; nothing can be more disgusting than to see the house fly leave such mannure heaps and come to eat with us at the table. The young flys are white grubs which live on liquid filth, they ahve no mouth, but absorb this liquid filth thru the skin, they are known as magets and are valuable as scavengers. The adults horse-fly has a rasp like tongue with which it files a particle of food, mixes it with saliva thus putting it into solution and then lapping it up.

Coleoptera (Sheath wings). This is the order to which the beetles belong, their outer or front pair of wings is raised for protection and not for flight. The hind wings are more membranous and are folded up beneath the front wings, with these hind wings they fly while the front wings are held forward out of the way. The beetles in their larva stage are grubs many of them are injurious boring into trees making [ramifing] holes thruout the trunk and then frequently building the trees, this is true with the locust borer, which is killing the most of the Black Locust trees of out city Lepidopterree (Scale wings) In this order the wings are covered with tiny scales which overlays like the shingles on a house, the order includes the moth and betterflies, scientifically there is no difference between a moth and a butterfly, the moths being night fliers while the butterflys are day fliers. The young of the moths and butterfly are known as catterpillars some are hairsters, others are hairy.

The hairy caterpillar usually pull, the hair from their own body with which to build a cocoon, the hairless one usually pass into a state without being covered by a cocoon; as caterpillars the moths and butterfly feed foraciously as adults they feed but little in this later stage. their food is a nectar of flowers which they draw from the flowers thru long tubes which when they are not feeding is coiled up against the front part of the head. Hymenoptera (Membrane wings) This order includes the ants bees and wasps, in the group there is usually found a high division of labor an ant colony is composed sometimes of winged females + male workers, soldiers, army officers etc. A division of labor is also found in the honey bees in which we have three tyles, the workers which are steril female the queens which are fertile females find the drones which are , the queens do nothing but lay eggs while the