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Updated: April 30, 2025
"He never had any use for boys, you know, and often says he wonders why the pests were ever born. I don't remember doing him any mean thing in my life, but he's got it in for the whole creation of boys, I expect." "What did he do to you?" "Yes, tell us, William. We'll stand by you, never fear." "He needs a good lesson, the old skinflint. Tell us what happened!"
The mountains sent down to us unfailing supplies of the purest water; we wanted no schemes of irrigation, for "Green are our fields and fair our flowers, Our fountains never drumlie." We had no plagues of locust, no animal or insect pests to destroy our crops or herbage.
And very soon, too, we discovered that we were in one of the favourite haunts of the mosquito, for the cabin lamp was scarcely lighted when the pests made their appearance below in absolute clouds, and so tormented us that we were fain to beat a hasty retreat to the deck, in the vain hope of avoiding them.
A certain kind of wasp, with a black and white striped body, spends his time killing house-flies, and this creature could be bred and used to destroy the disease-spreading pests. Even the invisible insect life can be made most useful to man and to his health. The latest plan for disposing of city sewage involves the cultivation of microbes, to be employed as disinfectors.
The intelligence that appears to pervade the organic world, and that reaches its conscious expression in the brain of man, is just as manifest in all the forms of animals and plants that are inimical to him, in all his natural enemies, venomous snakes and beasts of prey, and insect pests, as in anything else. Nature is as wise and solicitous for rats and mice as for men.
As the only effectual one, I begged a plate and a basin from my host, filled the former with water, and standing the latter in it placed my box on the top, and then felt secure for the night; a few inches of clean water or oil being the only barrier these terrible pests are not able to pass. As soon as I was well, I again went to Goa, accompanied by Mr.
It was all new and exciting, and there was a spice of patriotism mixed up with it. They felt that they were training to be of some service to the community. "It's fearfully weird," said Wendy, writing her essay on Insect Pests, "to have to find out whether your insect has a biting or a sucking mouth, so as to know whether you must spray the beastie direct, or apply poison to the plant.
Some of the skins of the reindeer are so perforated by these pests that they are absolutely worthless to the Indians.
These pests are in nearly all cases invaders which owe their successes to the fact that our treatment of the regions they have entered has opened vacancies in the once closed ranks of the indigenous host, into which the foreigners are free to enter.
Wallie asked, impudently. "Where have I heard that word?" "Who sold liquor to you two?" "I ate a raisin and it fermented," Wallie replied, pertly. "Where's your clothes?" To Pinkey. "How'sh I know?" "You two ought to be ordered to keep out of town. You're pests. Come along!" "Jus' waitin' fer you t'put us t'bed," said Pinkey, cheerfully.
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