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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1957)
Wectaefdayv February 20, 19S7 MEDFORD (OHECOK) MAIL TMBU1TE SEVEK O ft--. O 1 JJ(kr7'---:. G M. - a r MAIL GOII THROUGH IN COMFORT Newest motor feed vehicle for the U. S. Post Office is this "Mailster." The Sleek, maneuverable machine is designed for fast, efficient and economical delivery of mail and parcel post in residential areas now being serviced by earners on foot or bicycle. The Government has ordered 1500 of them from Cushman Motor Works in Lincoln, Neb. They will be us.d 6y post offices in the Southeast, Southwest and in C!if oraia. Is That So? For good or bad. In sickness or in health, insects are here to stay as our constant companions CJre to know more about them? w O 8 In man there are some 782 dis ci tehct muscles; in grasshoppers soe 900 have been described, and in caterpillars about 4,000. The average insect can pull over 20 times its own weight the small leaf eating beetle Donacia) pulling 42.7 times its fcwn ight, by test. In contrast puny man can pull Dut .88 oi nis own weight; a horse from .5 to .83. The powdery substance which rubs off the wings of moths and butterflies so easily are minute scales which cover the bodies as well as the wings in over 1 a p ping, arrangements like shingles on a house. And as shingles protect the inner sur faces of nouses, so too do the 2. ao-jr scales protect the wings and bodies of moths and butterflies. Though extremely minute, these scales v;y in shape, size and color. When rubbed, off from one wing, the insect's flying abil ity is hampered not only by the loss of weight but also by the uneven flow of air over the wimg's surface and thus they become much easier prey for birds, ants, beetles, and otner animals that feed upon them. rCost scales are never replaced. The walking stick from the Malay peninsula has reached a length of 13 inches the long est inset in the world. When amplified a hundred million times, the female mating call of the mosquito sounds like a movie version of a dive-bomber's shriek. The male's answer is -in a distinctly higher pitch. The black whirligig beetle usually found gyrating in masses on the surface of relatively calm water or basking like a turtle on a log or stone has the ability. when danger threatens, to catch a bubble of air under a wing- cover and dive deeply under the By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist surface and remain there, breathing off the captured oxy gen, until the danger is past. Al though it spends most of its ac tive time on the surface of the water, it can both fly well and dive freely. In "walking" on the water, it keeps from breaking through because of the water's surface tension the tiny sur face film on water. Add a deter gent and it will fall through. Katydid's Music A wingless katydid not only can produce music by rubbing the rasps on the inside of her legs against short teeth project ing from her body, but she can also make her joints squeak while walking. A pair of flies beginning op erations on April 1 might be the progenitors if every egg were to hatch and live and bear off spring of 191,010,000,000,000,- 000,000 flies by August 31. Al lowing 18 cubic feet to a fly, that figures to cover the earth to a depth of 47 feet. Happily only an infinitesimal number of each fertile pair's progeny survive. The Department of Agricul ture considers that bees are up to 20 times more valuable as pollinators than as producers of honey and beeswax. In a little over 6 minutes, a bee averages 50 apple blossoms. It has been estimated that bees in America pollinate about 2,843,890 apple trees during one season. Those trees in turn produce a $90,000,- 000 crop. Hums in Key of F The housefly hums in the key of F in the middle octave and its wing beats equal 20,700 wings beats per minute. Drangonflies no true flies are extremely fast fliers. The larger species have been esti mated to travel at 55 miles an hour. Even when traveling at top speed they can change course abruptly or stop quickly to alight upon a blade of grass or to hover above water. It cap tures its prey by forming a basket of its six long legs in flight, and thus it scoops up its prey. It does not use its legs for walking. The Hessian fly, a wheat pest, was introduced into this country in the early 1700s in fact, George Washington experiment ed in 1760 with various sub stances in an effort to reduce their number. , (Copyright, 1957, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) A irr V This - "My Bobby is a New Boy! 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