f scorpions, which, it might be men-tioned, are often fetched from the tropics to our own sea-ports in bunches of bananas. Their sting is evidently in-tended merely as a defensive weapon, and is not employedfor killing the insects which they pursue for food. In temperate latitudes ants, while… … Electric-light Bug. An insect vampire said to suck the blood of fishes lives from such insects, which, marching in great armies, arenot to be resisted by any known means whatsoever. Theso-called driver ants of Africa, for example, move in col-umns sometimes a mile in length, and they turn aside…
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