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HALF HOURS WITH INSECTS. [Packard. 
several and found that on holding them by the wings they 
would exude two or three drops of liquid from the proboscis, 
which, examined by the microscope, were found to swarm 
with the spores of the fungus. The stomach was likewise 
filled with the same liquid, swarming with spores.” 
Among other insects which frequently annoy travellers in 
the southern states and in the tropics are the ticks (Fig. 
67). It is the habit of these beings to climb up bushes 
and stalks of grass and attach themselves by means of their 
outstretched legs to whatever animal passes by, whether a 
fig. 67. 
Cattle Tick, enlarged. 
beast or lizard or snake, as they occur on all creeping ani¬ 
mals. Having attached themselves by their jaws to the 
skin, they burrow beneath it, causing a painful tumor. It is 
difficult to pull them out as they are anchored in the flesh by 
their many-barbed tongue. 
We turn again to Anderssen’s narrative for an account of - 
the plague this tick may be to the wanderer in Africa. 
“Besides myriads of fleas, our encampment swarmed with 
a species of bush-tick, whose bite was so severe and irrita¬ 
ting, as almost to drive us mad. To escape, if possible, the 
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