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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1957)
Is That So? Ignorance begets superstition, the father of popular fallacies. The subject of insects is no ex ception. So now, in midwinter while most insects have gone to their reward or are quietly over wintering, isn't it a fine time to sneak up with a Fact vs. Fallacy on insects? FALLACY: Little flies de velop into big flies when they re grown. FACT: Once an insect emerges from its pupal stage, it is an dult and ceases to grow. Very mall winged flies remain very small winged flies: big flies were big flics when ' they emerged. Neither do moths nor butterflies grow. FALLACY: Veins in insects wings carry blood as do ours. FACT: Veins in mature in sects are not veins in the sense of veins in humans and do not function as blood vessels. Although tht; veins of insects' wings do start out something like veins in humans, each vein is a sort of double tube, one tube carrying air, the other blood for a very brief time after the in sect has emerged into adulthood. In fact, only while its wings are opening and assuming their final flatness and rigidity. Then, un like ours, circulation virtually ceases, and the venation we see becomes a dry brittle, structural framework, giving wings stiff ness and strength. Some butter flies you know, travel upwards of 2,500 miles. FALLACY: You can trap a mosquito by holding your breath when it bites. FACT: Popular as this myth may be that if you hold your breath the mosquito's bill will become stuck and you can dis patch it leisurely, it just ain't so. So don't hold your breath. - FALLACY: When houseflies become exceedingly numerous and bad that is, when they bite By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Njturatist ! it is a sure sign of rain. I FACT: Houseflies can't bite its mouth parts are soft and there is no chewing mechanism. These "biting'' flies which sometimes closely resemble houseflies are really horseflies, deer flies, black flies, etc. These, particularly the horseflies, are vicious biters and given the opportunity will suck blood for two to five minutes, or until their abdomens are so swollen with blood that they bulge. When they become nu merous it is really an indication that the wind has moderated and the air is heavy but mostly, that there is a favorable breed ing place such as rotting vegeta tion or a manure pile somewhere in the vicinity, regardless of whether or not rain is on the way. FALLACY: Tolerance to bee stings can be developed. FACT: For the time beekeep ers are working with bees, they can develop a tolerance but it is lost in time when they are no longer exposed to bee stings. In cidentally, one scientist has esti mated, after much laboratory experimentation, that it takes 500 honeybee stings to make a lethal dose for a grown man, re ports Dr. Lucy Clausen, author of Insect Fact and Folklore (Macmillan, N. Y.). Yet, in Irv ington, N. Y., a young man died within 15 minutes after one sting on the back of his neck. However there seems to be in creasing evidence that some per sons' severe reaction to bee stings is due to protein hyper sensitivity and not necessarily to bee venom itself. FALLACY: Termites, one of man's greatest enemies, are in reality white ants. FACT: They are not ants, nor are they actually white. In fact, they are not even distantly re lated to ants, having evolved from roach-like ancestors. A ter mite can be distinguished readily from the ant: there is an absence of construction of "waist" where abdomen joins thorax. Although most consider ter mites destructive because they attack wooden foundations, ter mites may be considered of great economic worth to man since their chief food is cellulose that they obtain from dead wood. In eating dead wood, they help clear away stumps and fallen timber that would otherwise Oregon Staters Top PCC In Rebounding Statistics Los Angeles U.PJ Five schools shared top team statisti cal honors in the weekly basket ball figures released today by the Pacific Coast conference commission's office. The only team to lead in two department was UCLA, top ranked in total scoring and free throw percentage for all confer ence games through Jan. 19. UCLA has averaged 75.8 points per game in its first four out ings and has scared 91 feld goals and 121 free throws. The Bruins also have hit 78.6 per cent of their attempts from the tree-throw line, with their 121 points coming on 154 attempts. Washington has shot 44 per cent from the floor with 157 field goals in 357 attempts to rank first in that rating. Oregon State's top rebound ing mark of 58.9 per cent was achieved on 162 recoveries to clog the forest and impede new growth.- In addition, they breaK down and reconvert these ma terials thus indirectly enriching our soil. (Copyright, 1957, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letters to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. its opponents' 113. California has allowed oppo nents but 51.4 points a game in five contests and Oregon has held foes to 32.9 per cent on floor shooting and 72 goals in 219 attempts. Smart, Back Lead The state of Washington dom inated PCC individual standings with University of Washington sophomore Doug Smart leading in field goals and rebounds and Washington State's Larry Beck leading in total scoring per centage. In only one department, free throw accuracy, did another school break into the leadership with Carl Isaacs of Stanford on top. Smart has averaged 55.8 per cent on his floor shots, with 43 field goals in 77 attempts and is a 19.3 per cent rebounder. The six-foot, seven-inch player has x - - A o ' SIGNING for his first head coach job is Jim Meyers, line coach at UCLA. He goes to Iowa State in the Big Seven this taW.dnternational) Almost EVERYONE agrees its WORTH WAITING FOR! ' ' ' V Ui L hd M V It rn NOW outselling all other imported cars combined! 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The millworkers were seeking a 15-cent an hour raise for all laborers, but details of agree ment have not been revealed. Wednesday, January 23, 1S57 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVTJT Adirondacks Scanned For Air Force Plane Rome, N.Y. (U.PJ A ground search party fanned out through the Adironacli: foothills today hunting for a KC97 Air Force tanker plane missing and feared to have crashed with seven crewmen aboard. A doen members from the Civil Air Patrol at Utica formed the search teams at the Alder Creek state police substation, 15 miles north of here, where nu merous reports of a plane fly ing around were received during snared 98 out of 508 total oppor tunities. In total scoring Beck has aver aged 21.2 points in his first five games on 40 field goals and 26 free throws for a total of 106 points. Bruno Boin of Washing tn is second with a 19.7 average. 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