Saturday, November 12, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, September 8, 1922
Naturalist Tells How They Set Free Their Fellows When He Imprisoned Them. An eminent naturalist, while watching a column of foraging ants, one day, placed a small stone on one of them to secure it. The next one that approached, on discovering the situation of its associate, ran back in an excited manner and communicated […]
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 16, 1912
Waukegan people were much interested last night in the passage over the city of an immense swarm of dragon flies. They were myriads of the winged insects and the swarm was large that it took fully half an hour for them to pass over the city. They were headed in a southerly direction. The flight […]
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 31, 1900
With his features distorted beyond all human semblance, and his hands and arms swollen and seared, Andrew Schlake, a farmer living north of Nashville, was found wandering about in the swamps along the Okaw river. Myriads of Mosquitoes hovered over him and covered his face and body. Schlake was taken to his home by friends […]
Friday, November 11, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 9, 1904
There is a plague of mosquitoes in the town of Eldorado, Mexico. One woman has been driven insane by the attacks of the insects, and two infants have died from their bites. The people have appealed to the State authorities for aid.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, February 24, 1922
Careful observations have been made, in France, of the extent to which mosquitoes are attracted to domestic animals in preference to human beings. It was proved experimentally that mosquitoes have a strong predilection for the blood of rabbits, stronger than for that of any other domestic animal. The discovery has practically applied to many parts […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, September 30, 1900
Battle Royal Between Them in Which Former Was Easily the Victor. An Exciting battle between a spider and a caterpillar, which lasted nearly an hour, was witnessed by a crowd of men and boys in West Manayuck, Pa., one day lately. The spider won the contest after losing two legs. The fight occurred on a […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 11, 1899
A Visitation by Insects Annoys Merchants and Retards Business. Swarms of crickets invaded Galesburg recently. No part of town escaped, but they were densest near electric lamps, many of which were obscured. On Main street they were so thick as to make walking very disagreeable. Pedestrians could not avoid trampling upon them and being surrounded […]
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 17, 1922
Moths and butterflies might not seem to us of much value as a food. but the Romans used them, as well as bees as an article of diet.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 21, 1872
A farmer in Concord, Michigan, has kept an account of the potato bugs he has gathered this season fro an eight-acre piece, and he says they amount to twenty-one bushels, actual measure.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, November 13, 1902
    A necklace made of black ants is an article of adornment of New Guinea. The Anglican mission there gives particulars of one which measured over eleven feet long and was composed of as many as 1,800 bodies of ants. Three little pieces of shell and a dozen English beads were incorporated into it, and […]