THE INTEREST IN INSECTS 
fly is to a certain extent a nuisance. 
Even that badness is a goodness, how- 
ever, in teaching human beings to over- 
come it in playing the game of life. It 
walks, apparently by preference, over 
any kind of offensive matter, and car- 
ries on its claws microbes, germs and 
other objects dangerous to us, when we 
allow it to transfer its promenading to 
our food. Flies should be kept out of 
the house, but while we kill the adult 
fly we should not forget its usefulness 
as a maggot. 
There is another point that appeals 
to naturalists. A fly is one of the most 
ingenious mechanisms. Sometime 
when you are at ArcAdiA I will show 
you parts of a fly greatly enlarged upon 
the screen. It seems to me that there 
is no object in all the world more in- 
teresting than a fly’s tongue, foot or 
eye. So we may say that a fly is of 
use as an object to study, for I do not 
know why an animal is not useful for 
mental food in the same commendable 
way that others are useful as physical 
food.— E. F. B. 
Some Bees Are Very High. 
BY DR. J. F. HILL, PARKERSBURG, WEST 
VIRGINIA. 
The Wood County court house of 
Parkersburg, West Virginia, stands 
right in the business section. On the 
top of the tower is an open ball (or 
ARROW SHOWS WHERE BEES ARE. 
latticework sphere). A colony of bees 
have taken possession of this, a hun- 
dred feet or more above the street. 
From the number of bees flying around 
it, it must be a strong colony. The jani- 
tor says he is going up to get a pot of 
honey. He is certainly welcome. — 
“Gleanings in Bee Culture.” 
A New Paper-making Ant. 
On page 272 of our March, 1919, 
number we published an article, “A 
Very Interesting Study of Ants.” Pro- 
fessor William Morton Wheeler has re- 
cently published in “Psyche” a mono- 
graph entiled “A New Paper-making 
Crematogaster from the Southeastern 
United States.” We quote the follow- 
ing from that paper : 
“About a year ago Dr. Edward F. 
Bigelow sent me a photograph and 
fragments of a large paper nest found 
by Mr. J. Willis Youngs at Fort Myers, 
Fla., together with some of the ants 
that had constructed it. Dr. Bigelow 
subsequently published the photograph 
with a few notes. The nest as shown 
in the photograph is much damaged but 
must have been originally more than a 
foot in length. A study of the ants 
shows that they represent an unde- 
scribed species closely related to C. 
lineolata but easily recognizable as dis- 
tinct. I feel reasonably certain from 
an examination of the carton and a 
comparison of Atkinson’s and Bige- 
low's figures that both nests were built 
by the same species of ant.” 
Try It Some June Day. 
“Governor Foils Lynching Bee” — 
Headline. Lynching a bee has always 
impressed us as a considerable task de- 
serving of a governor’s commendation. 
— N. Y. Globe. 
Seek Nature. 
Seek Nature in the morning, 
With freshness in her look; 
And seek her at the noonday 
In cool, sequestered nook ; 
And do not lose the sunset, 
Its lingering, violet light, 
Nor miss the starlit pathway 
To her temple of the night. 
— Emma Peirce. 
The fields are robed in chiffon 
Of iridescent hues; 
For matchless color blending 
Who would not grasses choose? 
— Emma Peirce. 
