INSECT INTRUDERS. 



was not a product of the animal world. 

 And yet this flour was alive and other 

 .knowledge that I possessed soon led me 

 to solve the riddle here presented. The 

 bin was nearly empty, but it had been 

 used for flour for years, and its present 

 state served to indicate that this had been 

 the case, for it was a crawling mass of 

 the well-known Weevil and another 

 smaller flour-eating red-brown beetle, 

 known as the Biscuit Beetle. There were 

 also present one or two predaceous insects 

 which feed upon the weevil and were to 

 all appearances thriving amazingly on the 

 accumulation of diet presented to them. 

 In fact, the flour bin contained as large 

 and happy a family party as I had wit- 

 nessed for some time. My hostess in- 

 formed me that the bin was never emptied 

 as when low it was refilled again. This 

 served the weevil and his partner's no- 

 tions of hospitality to perfection. I could 

 not help speculating on the number of 

 weevils I had consumed in various tasty 

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